Leaders from a cross-section of entertainment and sports spoke today in a town hall on SiriusXM about the devastation the COVID-19 shutdown has had on their industries. The get-together was hosted …
about the devastation the COVID-19 shutdown has had on their industries. The get-together was hosted by Dan Loney of“It’s been completely devastating for the industry,” said Damon Whiteside, CEO of the Academy of Country Music. “Just this week, many of the major superstar artists tours announced that they were canceled for the remainder of the year.
In hockey, he said, “You’ll hear people skating on the ice and the sticks hitting the ice and some screaming back and forth, which will be great because you’ll get some unbelievably enhanced audio that you would not have gotten otherwise. Baseball, the same way. I mean, we all know the sounds of baseball from spring training and from playing games like that when there’s nobody else around.
“It’s like with a lot of dancers and singers,’ and so those conversations are quite difficult, and it’s figuring out to make sure that everybody is safe and that we’re doing this the right way. So it’s kind of like if somebody came in and just slashed your budget and then you’re like, ‘Okay, how am I going to make this work – to have the same scope and creatively, have the movie that you envisioned come to life?’ But first and foremost, it really truly is all about safety.
Stage and screen actor Michael Urie said that he’s confident that Broadway will bounce back, and that hopes that the shutdown will be seen as an intermission. “I’ve seen it come back from things before, obviously 9/11, housing crisis, all these things that have sort of knocked New York down and New York gets back up again. This is much different. This is much bigger, but I see it happening. And what we’ve been saying in the theater is this is just intermission.
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