Elizabeth Campbell has had the chance to meet many stars who have appeared on the Arkansas Repertory Theatre s as well as backstage crew members as a volunteer.
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cancelled because of a covid outbreak among the cast and this devastating, devastating perception for this industry that keeps new york afloat for all these years. i mean, this is a business that makes $2 billion a year. which is a lot of money, i get that. but, look, covid aside, there have always been illnesses that might affect any member of any cast so there s always a way around that, isn t there? they can get their stand ins, get their support cast in? well, the problem is that when you have so many people getting attacked with covid, if you have stand ins attacked, the understudies attacked and the principles attacked, you lose your base at some point. so there are not enough people to go on with the show, and the frightening thing, david, is that people i believe now and i ve talked to a lot of my friends who are not in the theatre, but who want to buy tickets, they re thinking, do i really want to go and see a show