"But tomorrow is a big day. Local 1, the stagehands’ union, and the League of American Theaters and Producers are to sit down for talks at 10 a.m. It will be first round of negotiations since Nov. 8, and the pressure is rising. Along with the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving week is one of the busiest and most lucrative of the year. In 2006, Broadway did $23.3 million in business that week."
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The audio-visual component of this article is very well produced. This really opened me up to the 'ripple effect' of the strike. But at the same time, about 6 years ago, downtown new york was carried away in a dump truck and business died and has come restored. In perspective to that tragedy, this strike does not have the potential to do anywhere near the same damage to NYC as 9.11 did.
In the interview with the box office treasurer for Chicago, he mentions that 'we are the same people who have been working here for years, who got us through 9.11'. that is such a PR ploy! I'm not sure i believe that the box office treasurer really deserves a human interest perspective in connection to 9.11, but its interesting that they are using that as a tool to establish an image as 'true and hardworking NYC.'
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