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| re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) | |
| Posted by: broadwaybacker 03:23 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) - MockingbirdGirl 08:20 am EDT 07/23/21 | |
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| I posted this thought several weeks ago, but I think that proof of vaccination will both be required and met with less resistance than we will see in many tour cities, and tours are re-opening as well and only at 100%. It's a question of demographics (need I add "political" demographics?) But interestingly, as of today (or two days ago as per the most recent data), only 54% of residents of NYC are fully vaccinated, I'd have guessed it was more than that. (I do not know if this reflects those eligible to receive the vaccine, or total residents including kids). I've followed the science of vaccines very carefully, in that back in early December, 2020, I entered the J&J clinical trial. When I was able to schedule an appointment for one of the two EUA vaccines (it happened to be on Inauguration Day) I was unblinded. The doctor who heads the study called me and asked me if I thought I had received the vaccine or a placebo, and I told him the placebo because I didn't have a reaction (though I felt fatigued the next day but attributed it to the "placebo effect"). When he told me that I was wrong and had gotten the real deal, I was completely elated, joyous. Also, my wife's first cousin is somewhat of an expert in this stuff and curates all of the COVID related published articles and sends them to a mailing list of relatives, friends and colleagues on a daily basis. Yesterday's "Virus News" was edition 274. |
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| re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) | |
| Posted by: BillEadie 05:34 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) - broadwaybacker 03:23 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
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| I went to a new play reading last night, sponsored by La Jolla Playhouse. This company has only indoor theatre facilities (three that are regularly scheduled), so last night was the first time they had an audience in any of their venues since the pandemic began. Detailed instructions were sent out regarding what to expect. Masks were required to ride a shuttle bus from the parking garage. There was a symptom check upon arrival, and wrist bands were issued to indicate that the check had been completed. The symptom check did not include a temperature check. It may have included a question as to whether one was fully vaccinated (I don’t recall one way or the other), but if it did they took you at your word. The volunteer ushers were masked. Some audience members wore masks; most didn’t. The performers did not wear masks. There were no concessions available, either before the show or at intermission. Our area has no requirement for indoor masking at the moment, though some indoor venues require masks to enter. I imagine one function of hosting these readings is to provide a trial run for the subscription season, which begins in the fall. The plays being read this weekend and next are: SUMO, by Lisa Sanaye Dring ALL THE MEN WHO’VE FRIGHTENED ME, by Noah Diaz not-for-profit (or the equity, diversity and inclusion play), by Francisca Da Silveira ONE-SHOT, by Andres Rosendorf Bill, in San Diego |
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| You raise an interesting point | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 07:03 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) - BillEadie 05:34 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
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| Will Broadway theatre owners be willing to forego lucrative snack sales due to Covid? Seems like they make a LOT of money on the mark up. | |
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| re: You raise an interesting point | |
| Posted by: Ncassidine 07:05 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: You raise an interesting point - MockingbirdGirl 07:03 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
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| Maybe they will ask people eating snacks to do so in the lobby. | |
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| re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) | |
| Posted by: sirpupnyc 04:32 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) - broadwaybacker 03:23 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
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| NYC's vaccination rates absolutely indicate that there's a lot more than right-wingery at work. 54% is the all-ages number. My area of Brooklyn (Flatbush) is blue as blue can be and yet to crack 50%. There are areas further south and east that are 10–20% below the city number. It's not just the red patches on the electoral map, it's a lot of districts where the Republican Party doesn't even bother putting up candidates. |
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| re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:00 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) - sirpupnyc 04:32 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
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| I think we are getting away from the point. Those neighborhoods, for better or worse, are not (Broadway) theatre-going neighborhoods. In the prime theatre-going areas of the city (and beyond), vax rates are up in the 70-80-90% range. Poor people, sadly, are less likely to get vaccinated, and even less likely to see a Broadway show, even for free. And of course the city has its pockets of redness, whether resulting from the orthodox jews or the staten islanders etc. | |
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| re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) | |
| Posted by: sirpupnyc 10:36 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) - ryhog 10:00 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
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| Perhaps not compared to your rich white Manhattanites, but when I'm coming home from shows I always see people holding Playbills (theatre, Met, Carnegie Hall) going further south than I am. | |
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| re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 11:51 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) - sirpupnyc 10:36 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
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| I don't doubt that for a second, but the fact is, the low vax rate zipcodes are also the low ticket buying zipcodes and I'd be willing to bet half the value of a Broadway sippy cup that those hands you saw clutching playbills now have an abundance of covid antibodies lurking within. I thought your point was that, in the city at least, low vax rate does not only correlate to republican districts and I of course agree with that. It's not really controversial, though, that poor minority communities don't go to the theatre, and neither do super-orthodox jewish ones. | |
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| re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) | |
| Posted by: broadwaybacker 05:02 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know” (THR) - sirpupnyc 04:32 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
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| So what’s your theory or theories as to why that’s true. There’s quite a bit written about an overall distrust of the vaccine within minority communities. It’s one of the reasons that the government is putting a lot of effort into recruiting minority clergy. It’s very sad because those communities are often at the highest risk. | |
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