The coronavirus-induced shutdown of Broadway theaters will now officially extend for more than a year
The past is in the past. Photo: Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images . The Broadway League, the consortium of producers and theater owners that govern the industry, has announced plans to extend the theater closure from January 3, 2021, when theaters were previously set to reopen, through May 30, 2021.
This hedging on the producers part is partially a cash flow issue, as theaters will now have to offer refunds and exchanges for cancelled performances for the additional months cancelled.
The shutdown extension puts the kibosh on many productions that had announced plans to return earlier this spring. In addition to Broadway’s many long-running shows that are expected to restart performances when they can – your Wickeds and Hamiltons, basically anything except Frozen, which Disney closed due to the pandemic this May – some producers have already announced dates for new Broadway productions that were to begin before next May.
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