Broadway Returns! Complete Guide to What Shows Are Opening – and When (Updating)
Classics like “The Phantom of the Opera” and newcomers like “The Music Man” are aiming for fall starts
Thom Geier | May 24, 2021 @ 6:00 AM
Broadway theaters, shut down in March 2020 at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, are aiming to light up again beginning this September under still-to-be-determined safety protocols.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on May 3 announced that the state would be lifting all of its capacity restrictions beginning May 19, including for Broadway theaters. But continued questions about capacity limits, as well as the logistics of rehiring and rehearsing casts, have led producers and theater owners to plan for a September return of both new and old productions.
The Broadway production of
Six has announced an official return date of September 17 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. The musical, which was scheduled to open the night Broadway shut down, will celebrate its belated opening night on October 3.
Single tickets for
Six will go on sale to the general public on Monday, May 10 at 10am ET. Early access tickets are currently on sale through Monday, May 10 at 9:59am. The production and theater will follow all New York State, New York City, and CDC guidelines to ensure the safety of actors, staff, and patrons, with protocols potentially including face coverings, health screenings, and more.
The Broadway production of
Six the Musical has announced an official return date of September 17 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
The musical, which was scheduled to open the night Broadway shut down, will celebrate its belated opening night on October 3. Single tickets for
Six will go on sale to the general public on Monday, May 10 at 10am ET.
The production and theatre will follow all New York State, New York City, and CDC guidelines to ensure the safety of actors, staff, and patrons, with protocols potentially including face coverings, health screenings, and more.
Written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss,
The U.K.-born musical, written by Toby Marlow and director Lucy Moss, began previews February 13, 2020, and was expected to open March 12âthe same day Cuomo announced that Broadway would halt performances as coronavirus case numbers grew in the U.S. While the shutdown was only announced for a few weeks initially, Broadway productions have since remained dark.
The prolonged hiatus has put a remarkable strain on new and long-running alike. Some shows that, like
Six, had begun previews but had not yet opened, announced they wouldnât return upon Broadwayâs reopening.
Mean Girls, which had both been open for over a year before the shutdown, posted closing notices during the pandemic. And while Cuomo, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio, the Broadway League, and President Bidenâs Chief Medical Officer Anthony Fauci have all cited this fall as a target reopening, many shows are expected to take longer to raise their curtain due to cost, not to mention complicated safety and co
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When he first came to London in 1950, the Australian actor Trader Faulkner, who has died aged 93, was instructed by John Gielgud in rehearsals to “take that dreadful compost out of your mouth, Trader”. He did, sort of, and soon afterwards succeeded Richard Burton in Gielgud’s production of Christopher Fry’s The Lady’s Not for Burning on Broadway, appearing alongside Pamela Brown and Esmé Percy “in the glittering style of artificial comedy.”
That last phrase of the New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson could be as easily applied to Faulkner’s own life in show business. This was an eccentric tapestry of leading and not-so-leading roles, of name-dropping connections, close-up entanglements with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, flamenco dancing, Dorothy Tutin, for whom he reserved an unrequited adoration – they were houseboat neighbours for a time on the Thames at Chelsea Reach – and Maxine Audley.