continues to spread throughout the world, movie, TV, music and theater productions have been forced to shut down with unprecedented speed, impacting every sector of the entertainment business.
I feel lucky to be in a rural place amid all this, and I did spend most of this past year in an editing room in the city, so quarantine is not a foreign concept. But unless the movie sells soon, I do need to get back to having a real income, which for me usually means editing or directing commercials for advertising agencies in New York. But with that industry disrupted just like all others, it’s a question of when that work would be available again.
Though we’d been feeling the initial winds of change , I was still shocked when word came down, in the middle of the junket, that Broadway would be dimming their lights for approximately a month. Though I am saddened by the sudden halt to our Broadway production of “A Soldier’s Play” after our March 11 performance, I am grateful that the lights were darkened only four days before our scheduled March 15 closing.
In a writers’ room there is a lot of creative chemistry and you’re reading each other’s body language and you may pause if you see someone making a think-y face. It’s different when you’re staring at each other on a computer screen. Whoever is making noise, that’s the person you focus on on the screen.
Speaking personally, I’m in a better position than many to weather this, for which I’m grateful. I’m lucky to have a garden to tend to, which is the best kind of meditation for me. I think about the people who need immediate care, particularly those who need abortion care and are losing their economic lifelines to pay for it. There’s been a health care crisis in this country since well before this, abortion care is less available to most Americans today than in 1973 when Roe was decided.
As for our new venue in Nashville, it missed the tornadoes of March 3 by half a block —the building next to us was destroyed — and while technically, we could have opened, we had to judge whether that’s the right move. You hold; you analyze; you wait; but eventually, you have to make a call and I want to be happy with the decisions I made and not think, “We should have done that differently.” When we look back on this moment, you want to be on the right side of things.
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Might be tough for a bit...but We All Need Entertainment to Enjoy/Decompress...so no worries...Demand will Continue/be Stronger 🙏 True, there is A Lot of Content...but Looks of Viewing Appetites will keep Biz as Strong as Ever 👌🙏💪🙌
M4A!
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Left reeling by the closures, Broadway entertainers like John Krause contemplate their next act
Bee brave Bee you Beeleave! Spring is here. Pollinate. It's is the season of milk and honey. Plant you seeds Tend your gardens Water Cultivate and when WE get through this winter in our lives We shall reap the harvest our are hearts and toil. Blessed bee the bee's who pollinate.