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| Last Edit: ShowGoer 05:48 pm EDT 08/03/21 | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 05:42 pm EDT 08/03/21 | |
| In reply to: What about Kids and shows geared to Kids? - standingO 04:23 pm EDT 08/03/21 | |
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| The Times article outlining de Blasio's announcement says "Children younger than age 12 will not be excluded from venues because they are not eligible to be vaccinated, he said. But the details of those plans remain to be worked out." This is more or less consistent with the guidance issued last week that Broadway will require vaccinations and masks, at least through October, except in the cases of children who present their negative Covid test. The question remains, as I and others have stated elsewhere in these threads, that in the absence of nearly all foreign tourists, a large chunk of domestic tourism, and without local and even bridge-and-tunnel vaccine holdouts and skeptics.... will there be enough parents from the tristate area who a) have never seen these shows or want to see them again, b) are willing to risk exposing their children to Covid even as headlines proliferate such as yesterday's "Delta Variant Infections Rising Among Children", and c) don't feel overly inconvenienced by having to take those children to a clinic to get the results of "a COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance start time, or a negative COVID-19 antigen test taken within 6 hours of the performance start time." That feels like a small pool of potential theatergoing families to me, at least until November or December, which is the earliest any of the rules might change. Institutions like Radio City and Phantom should be okay, but I'd be worried about some of the others, such as "Winnie the Pooh", especially given how soon most of these shows are starting up. Most people seem to believe vaccines will be available for children by January or February 2022, and legacy shows that have decades of profits like The Lion King and Wicked should be able to hold out till then. But as far as new shows opening this October, and given the cast sizes and overhead, suddenly small interesting and challenging plays for grown-ups like "Pass Over" and "Thoughts of a Colored Man" seem to me less risky than an expensive splashy family musical like "Mrs. Doubtfire". |
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