DEADLINE: So bring me as up to date as you possibly can.: I’m happy to do that, and happy to clear up something that our dear friends at The New York Times didn’t mean to do but did when they said to the governor that we were planning on reopening on June 7, which was never, ever the case. We did not say that. We said we were exchanging and refunding tickets up to June 7. I mean, every couple of days our guesstimates go further out.
We have said that when we’re told that we can come back, it will probably be six weeks before we can actually get back. Sixteen shows were somewhere in rehearsals or somewhere in previews at the time of the shutdown, and there will be a lot of work for those shows. We don’t know how many of those will actually make it – that will depend on how long we’re out.
DEADLINE: What will need to happen in those six weeks? There will be a million details that will need to be decided. Will theaters have concessions? Will audiences wear masks?We haven’t gone real deep [into some of those questions] because there’s not a lot of information that we can go real deep with. I wouldn’t be surprised if before you enter a theater someone took your temperature.
Masks? Maybe. There are just all kinds of questions, and the details are significant in that you’ve got a lot of casts that have disbursed and gone home. You’ve got a lot of touring companies that don’t even have homes to go to because they’ve been on tour for a while and they’ve rented out their apartments. I sawfrom [Actors’ Equity executive director] Mary McColl about will the actors want to come back until they’re sure they’re safe.
Another reason why it will take those four to six weeks is the money to come back up. Even for the long running shows, they’re talking about $1 million to get back up. So can they afford to reopen and then be shut down three weeks later? Then they would be doomed.Yes, that’s what I was alluding to. We’re not going to come back until we feel relatively comfortable that if the virus decides to come back, we’ll have better testing and better medicine.
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