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The sign at the Times Square TKTS booth on Friday, March 13, 2020.
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"A Beautiful Ritual of Letting Go": An Oral History of the Broadway Shutdown, Part 5
With the industry shut down, theaters scramble to make archival recordings of several productions, while UK-based actors make a mad dash to get back home. And then people started getting sick.
(© Tricia Baron)
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"A Very Strange Way to Stop": An Oral History of the Broadway Shutdown, Part 4
On Thursday, March 12, 2020, Six was scheduled to open. But everyone knew what was coming.
(© Tricia Baron)
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"This Is It": An Oral History of the Broadway Shutdown, Part 3
As an usher tests positive for Covid-19, the theater community braces itself for the inevitable.
Times Square in March 2020
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"We're Next": An Oral History of the Broadway Shutdown, Part 2
Actors stopped signing autographs at the stage door and audiences became more wary as March 2020 — and news of the coronavirus hitting New York — rolled in.
(© Tricia Baron)
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An Oral History of the Broadway Shutdown, Part 1
The theater community remembers the extraordinary period between January and March 2020, as the industry and world came to a screeching halt.