One attendee said the performance had her "smiling so hard" behind her mask.
"I think I was smiling every second, just feeling, being in a room with people again and having a shared human experience was incredible," Susan Slotoroff said outside the theater. "My heart was like beating out of my chest, you could feel the excitement and anticipation and just positive energy in the room."
"Broadway is the heartbeat of New York City," said Slotoroff, who is with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, a nonprofit that raises funds for HIV/AIDS-related causes.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that entertainment venues could reopen April 2 with 100 attendees indoors, or 150 if all attending have proof of completed vaccination or a recent negative test result.