- Television can fake it, movie audiences can wear masks, but a live theatre performance like “Romeo and Juliet” needs real actors kissing and fighting rivals in front of real people.
“We are living real-life stories in real time, in cramped quarters, sometimes on small stages, sometimes with lots of people and figuring how to do that work in the age of COVID-19 is really the challenge that we are up against,” said Mary McColl, executive director of the actors union Equity in the United States.
“We are very tied to social distancing measures. As long as they are still in place, a mainstream return to theatre and musical theatre in particular looks pretty impossible,” said Jessica Koravos, president of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group. “I don’t think theatre will go away. I just think it will be different when it comes back,” said Brian Moreland, producer of upcoming Broadway shows “American Buffalo” and “Blue.”
Musicals, which have large casts, musicians and backstage crews and are the most expensive to mount, are likely to be the last to come back. The Really Useful Group, producers of shows like “Cats” and the planned new London musical “Cinderella,” had to shutter 28 musicals around the world before the pandemic.
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