There was never anything officially said, but Kinnear was out for a lot of what were supposed to have been his first weeks, rumoredly with Covid. That may have been a contributing factor to the "let's just get out for a while."
And though the announcement of the close-and-move may have been spurred by Telecharge, it surely had been in the works for some time before, if there was a combination of "we'll have a longer, stronger life in a smaller house" with "someone else wants this big, prime theatre." It all happened suddenly, but I doubt it was sudden to at least some behind the scenes there.
And at the time when it all happened, there was a lot less certainty about even a few weeks ahead. A lot of shows were doing the stocking up on coverage, they'd recognized what they needed to get through it—and Mockingbird was one of those—but there wasn't the sense that the worst of it was imminently passing. |
