{"id":247344,"date":"2021-05-12T00:14:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-yorkers-must-support-broadway-right-now\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T00:14:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:14:33","slug":"new-yorkers-must-support-broadway-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-yorkers-must-support-broadway-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"#New Yorkers must support Broadway right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#New Yorkers must support Broadway right now<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Curtain up! Light the lights! Broadway is officially coming back at glorious 100 percent capacity on Sept. 14.\u00a0We no longer have to huddle around the TV waiting for Gov. Cuomo to scatter pompous breadcrumbs, or wildly speculate based on hearsay. It\u2019s now a certainty: The show will go on.<\/p>\n

That euphoric first night will see the reopening of juggernauts \u201cHamilton,\u201d \u201cWicked\u201d and \u201cThe Lion King.\u201d The next week \u201cCome From Away,\u201d \u201cAladdin\u201d and \u201cSix\u201d will join them. <\/p>\n

The antsy casts will be rehearsed, warmed up and raring to go, but it is the responsibility of New Yorkers to be sitting in those damn seats when the orchestras start playing. Don\u2019t whine and say it\u2019s too soon. Buy your tickets right now, folks. The city needs you.<\/p>\n

Few industries have been walloped by the pandemic like the theater. Movies<\/a> successfully turned to streaming, sports kept lucrative broadcast rights, high-end restaurants began delivering and middle-class office workers Zoomed from bed.<\/p>\n

All the while, Broadway was dark. Its shows\u2019 multimillion dollar advances dried up, actors started new gigs as real estate agents or craftsmen or even moved out-of-state entirely due to the high costs and decreasing quality of life here.<\/p>\n

Those performers, directors, designers, producers, technicians, stagehands, box-office employees, publicists, house management teams and theater owners deserve an hourlong standing ovation on Sept. 14. When you can\u2019t feel your hands anymore, clap harder.<\/p>\n

But Broadway\u2019s comeback is about more than just our entertainment and entertainers.<\/p>\n

Times Square, while gradually gaining foot traffic, is an ugly and decrepit imitation of the breathtaking spectacle it was only two years ago. America\u2019s biggest tourist attraction has fallen prey to junkies, homelessness and violence. Some days, it\u2019s \u201cMad Max: Midtown.\u201d Just this week there was gunfire that hit tourists and a little girl \u2014 on 44th Street! Steps from Shubert Alley.<\/p>\n

The return of bustling, diverse crowds to the neighborhood \u2014 at least 40,000 a night from plays and musicals alone \u2014 will help reduce crime, and give a much needed boost to the struggling shops, hotels, restaurants and bars that rely on Playbill-clutching customers.<\/p>\n

When you book your tickets to \u201cHamilton\u201d and \u201cCome From Away,\u201d reserve a table at Sardi\u2019s or Joe Allen or Cafe Un Deux Trois or the Glass House Tavern. Stop for a drink afterward at Hurley\u2019s Saloon on 48th Street.<\/p>\n

On a recent night I talked to Paul Barbey, the owner of Hurley\u2019s, which is next door to the Longacre Theatre that will soon house \u201cDiana: The Musical\u201d and across the street from the Walter Kerr, home to Best Musical winner \u201cHadestown.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sardi\u2019s restaurant likely won\u2019t reopen until Broadway shows are back on in September.<\/figcaption>
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It\u2019s a popular theater spot. In 2008, actor Mark Rylance was at Hurley\u2019s celebrating his Tony Award win for \u201cBoeing-Boeing.\u201d But \u2014 whoops! \u2014 the Brit forgot his trophy on a cheese plate. Barbey had to chase him down the street to return it. <\/p>\n

The other night, however, the buzz of showbiz was gone. I was one of four customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need Broadway back right now,\u201d Barbey told me. \u201cWe\u2019re surviving week-to-week here on the government\u2019s help. As you can see, we\u2019re doing 15 percent of our normal business. And we thrive with the theaters, the hotel guests and all the tour groups that come over from Europe or across the\u00a0country with all the Broadway shows.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cHonestly it\u2019s a light at the end of the tunnel.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 1970s, Times Square and the city were on the verge of collapse until a little show called \u201cA Chorus Line\u201d and the national excitement around it helped turn things around. My colleague Michael Riedel writes about it in his excellent book \u201cRazzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway<\/a>.\u201d Broadway can \u2014 and will \u2014 return the city to greatness again. If only New Yorkers will let it.<\/p>\n

See you at the theater.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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