Broadway Opening Night. What It Means. How It’s Changed. 7 Facts to Clear Up The Confusion and Crystallize the Outrage.

New York Theater: When the publicists for the Broadway revival of “The Music Man” starring Hugh Jackman announced that theater critics had to see the show on opening night, the pushback might have baffled people who don’t pay attention to New York theater. Don’t critics routinely attend opening night? No, they don’t.