The New York Times: The reopening of Broadway last summer, following the longest shutdown in history, provided a jolt of energy to a city ready for a rebound: Bruce Springsteen and block parties, eager audiences and enthusiastic actors.
But the Omicron variant that has barreled into the city, sending coronavirus case counts soaring, is now battering Broadway, leaving the industry facing an unexpected and enormous setback on its road back from the pandemic.
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To be honest I have a feeling that there is sort of a renaissance coming after this pandemic, because we don’t know if there will ever truly be an after. Like after all this, can we really truly go back to normal, or is the only option that we have moving forward. And while I don’t know what this will look like I know that Broadway in the winter pretty much adopted this model where it was like they try to return everything back to normal, but framed it as moving forward. But I think there’s a key difference between moving forward and going back to normal. Which I think is the reason why Broadway is struggling so much, because we can’t just do things the way we’ve always done after such a monumental shift in culture, climate, and history. So I think the key to saving Broadway and I guess the entertainment industry as a whole, is figuring out how we can do something new and something different by taking advantage of how new and different everything is during this time.
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