{"id":222757,"date":"2021-04-09T00:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-few-shows-are-back-in-nyc-and-theyre-hot\/"},"modified":"2021-04-09T00:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:06:53","slug":"a-few-shows-are-back-in-nyc-and-theyre-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-few-shows-are-back-in-nyc-and-theyre-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"#A few shows are back in NYC \u2014 and they’re hot"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A few shows are back in NYC \u2014 and they’re hot<\/strong>”
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They\u2019re back to giving \u2019em the old razzle dazzle \u2014 with a few COVID updates.<\/p>\n

As of April 2, ticketed live performances have returned to New York City after more than a year of dark, locked-up venues and out-of-work actors, creatives and staff. <\/p>\n

However, what\u2019s onstage today \u2014 like our waistlines \u2014 looks a little different from the art form we waved goodbye to on March 12, 2020. Think: audio plays in pods and solo Talking Heads dance parties.<\/p>\n

One aspect has happ<\/a>ily stayed the same, though. In typical New York fashion, tickets to the buzzy shows are hot, hot, hot. <\/p>\n

\u201c \u2018Social!<\/a>\u2019 sold [out] maybe in five hours,\u201d Rebecca Robertson, executive producer of the Park Avenue Armory<\/a>, told The Post of her new production that kicks off Friday. \u201cWe just watched the tickets be bought. Incredible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSocial! The Social Distance Dance Club<\/a>\u201d is no \u201cSouth Pacific.\u201d Ninety-five audience members stand in individual pools of light, separated by 12-to-15 feet, and dance for 55 minutes to a playlist curated by David Byrne of the Talking Heads. Pretty weird, but there is top-tier talent involved. The show is designed by Christine Jones and choreographed by Steven Hoggett, both of \u201cHarry Potter and the Cursed Child\u201d and other Broadway shows.<\/p>\n

Lest you think exhausted New Yorkers who have been cooped up in small apartments for more than a year might be too skittish to attend a theatrical hoedown, think again. The waitlist got so huge, Robertson said, she had to cut it off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re at 300,\u201d she added. \u201cWe just decided, look, we don\u2019t have that many performances!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The production, which runs through April 22, has more stringent safety measures than most. Each audience member will get a COVID-19 rapid test outside the theater, even if fully vaccinated, and must remain masked while inside. But the theater\u2019s precautions haven\u2019t deterred ticket buyers. Park Avenue Armory\u2019s following show, \u201cAfterwardsness\u201d by director\/choreographer Bill T. Jones, completely sold out in four hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A more traditional option \u2014 and an ideal segue for those who\u2019ve been spending their nights binge-watching \u201cThe Office\u201d \u2014 is \u201cThe Office! A Musical Parody<\/a>\u201d off-Broadway at the Theater Center. It\u2019s the first musical to reopen in Times Square, but its neighbors on Broadway should be back by fall.<\/p>\n

Michael Scott, Jim, Pam, Dwight and the rest of the Dunder Mifflin crew are on hand for the show. And so are silly songs, such as \u201cScranton: The Electric City\u201d and \u201cThat\u2019s What She Said!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although \u201cThe Office!\u201d opened way back in the fall of 2018, it\u2019s re-opening night on Friday has no tickets remaining. <\/p>\n

In Union Square\u2019s Daryl Roth Theatre, a new play is missing a familiar hallmark of a live show: actors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBlindness,\u201d an audio drama by Simon Stephens (\u201cThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u201d) that is based on the novel<\/a> by Jos\u00e9 Saramago, has audiences sit in pods of two as they wear headphones and listen to a recording of British actress Juliet Stevenson. She tells the story of the world being overcome by an epidemic of sight loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may not be theater as we know it, but it\u2019s a unique experience,\u201d producer Daryl Roth tells The Post. \u201cIt\u2019s in a theater. It gives people the opportunity to come in, gather together safely and experience something that is certainly theatrical.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roth was initially worried that audiences would hesitate to show up for the first new, ticketed show in pandemic-era New York. But weekends have been selling briskly (the play runs through Sept. 5<\/a>), and, she says, word of mouth has accelerated faster than for the usual off-Broadway play she\u2019s produced.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything in theater is a risk,\u201d she said. \u201cNo matter good times or bad times.\u201d\u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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