The Good White Way was darker on Christmas Eve as two Broadway productions completely shut owing to surging COVID-19 cases.
The reveals “Waitress” and “Thoughts of a Coloured Man” said on Friday that their productions would not reopen following accomplishing their ultimate reveals previously this week, according to Playbill.
Sara Bareilles’ “Waitress” returned to Broadway in September and was predicted to operate by subsequent thirty day period, but its confined engagement at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre was also thwarted by scenarios of the virus among its solid and firm, the outlet mentioned.
The Tony-nominated strike was identified for being the to start with Broadway musical composed, written, directed, and choreographed by females. It played 1,544 performances due to the fact 2016.
“Thoughts” — a Keenan Scott II engage in which explored a working day in the lifestyle of 7 black Brooklyn males — had 79 performances at the Golden Theatre, but was besieged by COVID cases between its solid associates. Its remaining display was Wednesday.
“While this is not the end result we had hoped for, getting element of this historic year on Broadway has been the finest privilege of our life,” producers Brian Moreland, Ron Simons, Diana DiMenna, Kandi Burruss, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Samira Wiley reported in a assertion, in accordance to the Playbill.
“The theatre industry’s terrific return is about so a great deal extra than the results or failure of any single manufacturing. As a group, we continue to be undeterred, unflinching, and unstoppable. We have never been prouder to be theatre makers than at this incredibly minute.”
“David Byrne’s American Utopia,” “Come From Away,” “MJ The Musical,” “The Lion King,” “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” “Dear Evan Hanson,” “Hamilton” and “Aladdin” ended up among the the other productions that declared additional canceled demonstrates on Friday.
