“I don’t want to take live theater for granted ever again, do you?” That was Lin-Manuel Miranda, in a brief curtain speech welcoming back the first Broadway audience at “Hamilton” since the COVID-1…
,” “Hamilton” and “Chicago” plus new play “Lackawanna Blues” — opened their doors to audiences on the same night.
Wearing red-sequined high heels in a nod to the musical’s “Wizard of Oz”-inspired storyline, Chenoweth clicked her feet three times and told the crowd, “There’s no place like home!” Soon thereafter, the crowd rose and the show stopped again following the character Glinda’s famous entrance line: “It’s good to see me, isn’t it?”
At that show, director Julie Taymor gave the curtain speech. “I want to applaud this audience for being here,” she said. “You have the desire, the enthusiasm, the courage to lead the way. Because as we know, theater in New York is the lifeblood and soul of the city.” She added, “”This is the beginning of me and my three kids leaving the house. They went to school on Monday and now we’re coming to the opening of Broadway today. It’s huge.”
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