“With no box office, there’s just no paychecks, that’s how it works': Actors, playwrights, musicians, and others explain why Broadway's closing has them freaked
Already, though, people are feeling the ripple effects of the shutdown. “Certain shows have closed and they will never open again,” Exum says. “LikeShe also expressed concern over the new shows set to open, like, which never opened and has been indefinitely postponed. “Things that have superstars in them are probably going to be fine, long-running shows are going to be fine. But new shows that have yet to even hit the market and make any money, will this close the show?” Exum asks.
“So far, on social media I’ve just seen an outpouring of positivity and hope,” says Sarah Beth Pfeifer, who played Clarisse in last year’s, and has been auditioning for shows. “I’m sure that doesn’t necessarily mean that people aren’t privately worried about their finances and their current and future jobs.” Pfeifer said she suspected that auditions would stop occurring alongside the shutdown as more and more shows were thrown into uncertainty.
“The other thing that gets lost in discussions like this is that theater provides real emotional support to the people who do it and the people who receive it,” Iconis says. “And that’s not nothing, especially at a time when there’s so much going wrong in the world and the crisis that’s happening. It’s such an awful time for art to not be readily available to the people who need it.
“Everybody needs money, of course, and everybody needs healthcare and housing, but there is just that need to create things and make things and share them with people,” Iconis explains. “And that’s really the thing that is wounded the most by this whole ordeal.”
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