Wednesday, January 12, 2022
‘We will weather this storm’: Omicron wreaks havoc on Broadway
Broadway | The Guardian: After a successful reopening, Covid-19 has yet again forced many hit shows to either take a hiatus or close for good but industry insiders are optimistic
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Mon 10 Jan 2022 02.06 EST
Last modified on Mon 10 Jan 2022 02.07 EST
At the curtain call, Hugh Jackman put his arm around Kathy Voytko, an understudy suddenly thrust into the role of leading lady Marian Paroo in The Music Man.
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Obviously, like most theater artists and many people working in industries across the world, the language of “weathering” and “persevering” exhausts me, as that's all we’ve been doing for these past two years. Sometimes I wonder if weathering these trials head on as an industry is the right choice, because all of this is going to have to change to survive when eventually a storm comes that we cannot weather, be it climate change, nuclear war, political collapse, or likely a combination of the three. So that leads me to think that we should just start doing anything we can that is able to be put up in strange times and start to move away from the rigidity of broadway style percenium productions that seem to be getting shut down and opened up every few weeks, creating environments that cannot consistently support artists with the wages they deserve to be paid.
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