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Broadway theaters in New York will remain closed until at least May 2021. The announcement was made last Friday by the Broadway League, the union representing theater producers and owners.

Last June, they still hoped to be able to reopen in January.

“With nearly 97,000 workers who rely on Broadway for a living and an annual city-level savings of $ 14.8 billion, we are committed to reopening as soon as conditions permit.

We are working tirelessly with many partners to keep the industry going once we can once again raise the curtains, ”said Charlotte St. Martin, President of the Broadway League.

A prosperous year

In the penultimate season, from May 2018 to May 2019, $ 1.83 billion in tickets were sold for Broadway shows.

The highest grossing season in history according to the Broadway League annual report.

While all theaters closed their doors on March 12 because of the pandemic, it is certain that the results of the last season will be less spectacular, not to mention the current season which simply did not take place.

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"I grew up in Florida. When I was in high school, I had to take an elective and took drama. I was a shy kid — it broke me out of that. I went to Florida State University and got my Bachelor's in music and musical theater. I came to New York with hardly any money at all and moved in with my college buddies. I started auditioning and working temp jobs. I met my wife on tour in Big The Musical. Umpteen million years later, here we are. ... July of 2012 was when I became a fulltime swing in the show. Being a Broadway performer is everything I've dreamed of. I miss seeing everybody and getting to play around with them onstage. It's a great family. I can ' t wait to do what we love and make people feel something other than the stress of the last few months .... During the [Thursday matinee before the shutdown], our stage manager came over the loudspeaker and gave us the heads up that the subways were going to shut down. They had told us by intermission that we were going to finish the show, but we w

ould not have an evening show that night.

It was scary.

I just wanted to be sure I got to my family before the subways shut down.

We're all in the biz.

My wife's over at HARRY POTTER.

My son played young Charlie in KINKY BOOTS.

It was one of the most amazing things my wife and I ever experienced, watching him .... I understand 99 percent of us are out of work right now.

But if making a career in the theater is your passion, keep going for your dream.

Sending your kid to college right now to pursue something that is currently on hold — it's scary.

But maybe that kid has the idea that gets us past this.

One way or another: theater is coming back. ”

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Greg Mills of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA photographed by Matthew Stocke outside the Majestic Theater.

Living near the theater district during the Broadway shutdown, photographer and performer Matthew Stocke has been haunted walking past the empty theater palaces sitting in rest, waiting for the lights and stars to return.

In this new Broadway.com photo feature, he reunites members of the theater community with their Broadway home #AwayFromHome @mattjamesphotostudio

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