Broadway reopening 2021 plan: Shows, COVID, restaurants, more

This summer, New Yorkers were capable to do just about all the things they could in 2019: Try to eat in a packed restaurant, go to a ball recreation, get a shiatsu therapeutic massage, sweat at a nightclub, freeze in a motion picture theater and jet off to Paris when they acquired ill of the disgusting summer in New York.

The last stage of reopening — and we usually realized it would be — is Broadway. 

The beating heart of Periods Sq. — the forty one historic Broadway theaters — roars again to existence this month. Bruce Springsteen has served maintain the lights on because late June, but a bona fide new enjoy, “Pass About,” opens Sunday evening. On Sept. 2, Very best Musical Tony Award winner “Hadestown” and “Waitress,” starring Sara Bareilles, will kick-commence 47th Road. 

Juggernauts “The Lion King,” “Hamilton,” “Wicked,” “Chicago” and “Moulin Rouge” will observe shortly in September.

Jeanna de Waal, who performs Princess Diana in the future musical “Diana,” informed The Article, “Live theater is returning and I thank God to be at the forefront of that expertise.”

Broadway producer and Jujamcyn Theaters president Jordan Roth mentioned, “For so extended, this is what we have all been dreaming about, hoping for, setting up and replanning for. Remaining collectively safely in celebration and in community. Since that‘s what would make New York New York. That’s what would make residing residing. That desire is eventually here and we are all so completely ready!”

Great ol’ Broadway will seem a little different from how we still left it, although, for much better and even worse. Audiences, at to start with, will be donning deal with masks and presenting proof of vaccination at the door. A couple shows — “West Aspect Tale,” “Frozen,” “Mean Girls” — closed prematurely because of to pandemic struggles. The highly effective producer Scott Rudin, who experienced various shows jogging and quite a few more in the operates, stepped apart right after a Hollywood Reporter story alleged that he’s been emotionally abusive to personnel. 

A record eight new performs by black playwrights will debut this time.

But there is a single issue that is unchanged and timeless: that experience of having your seat at a legendary theater exactly where Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury or James Earl Jones after done. The lights go down and suddenly it hits you.

I’m at a Broadway clearly show.

Here’s The Post’s guidebook to an strange, unforgettable 2021 slide time on Broadway.

What new shows are opening?

“Pass Over” (Aug. 22)

Two dudes sit on a street corner chatting. Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s enjoy, starring Jon Michael Hill and Namir Smallwood, is encouraged by “Waiting for Godot,” but addresses contemporary town problems.

August Wilson Theatre, 245 W. 52nd St. 888-985-9421.

“Lackawanna Blues” (Sept. 28)

Ruben Santiago-Hudson brings again his autobiographical a single-guy clearly show to the New York stage for the to start with time in 20 years.

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th St. 212-399-3000.

“Six” (Oct. 3)

Your teenager daughter now knows each individual phrase to “Six,” a fizzy pop live performance featuring Henry VIII’s sextet of spurned wives. The little musical has 100 million streams on Spotify and Apple New music.

Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 256 W. 47th St. 212-719-4099.

“Chicken & Biscuits” (Oct. 10)

There is very little funnier than a funeral. Norm Lewis and Michael Urie star in this new comedy about a rambunctious family members reuniting right after their father kicks the bucket.

Circle in the Sq. Theatre, 1633 Broadway 212-307-0388.

“Is This a Room” (Oct. eleven)

In a odd transfer, this documentary-theater drama will trade off nightly at the Lyceum Theatre with the enjoy “Dana H.” The play’s script is the true FBI transcript of the interrogation of Actuality Winner, who’s in jail for leaking federal government data.

Lyceum Theatre, 149 W. forty fifth St. 212-239-6200.

“The Lehman Trilogy” (Oct. fourteen)

The more than a century-extended record of the Lehman Brothers is informed by just a few adult men — from its founding as a modest store to its disastrous 2008 collapse as the fourth largest financial investment lender in America. Be warned — having as a result of 100 years of information normally takes about 3 several hours.

Nederlander Theatre, 208 W. 41st St. 212-921-8000.

“Dana H.” (Oct. 17)

From the fascinating, genre-bending playwright Lucas Hnath (“A Doll’s Household Part II”) comes a deeply private enjoy: The actress Deirdre O’Connell lip-syncs to a recording of Hnath’s mom recounting currently being abducted by a guy. 

Lyceum Theatre, 149 W. forty fifth St. 212-239-6200.

“Caroline, or Change” (Oct. 27)

Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner’s musical wasn’t a hit when it to start with performed Broadway in 2004. But the clearly show about a black maid with a vivid creativeness has made a devoted fanbase. This production, starring Sharon D. Clarke, comes to New York by using London.

Studio fifty four, 254 W. 54th St. 212-719-1300.

“Diana” (Nov. 17)

Thanks to Harry and Meghan, the royals have consistently been in the news. Now, they are on the stage, also, in a new musical about the turbulent existence of Princess Diana — performed by Jeanna de Waal. “Preparing for this Broadway purpose yet again is an remarkable honor that necessitates a new degree of grit and is stuffed with joy,” de Waal mentioned.

Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th St. 212-239-6200.

“Trouble in Mind” (Nov. 18)

The great LaChanze stars in Alice Childress’ 1955 drama about an actress who’s in rehearsals for an anti-lynching enjoy on Broadway.

American Airways Theatre, 227 W. forty second St. 212-719-1300.

“Clyde’s” (Nov. 22)

In this new enjoy from the fantastic writer Lynn Nottage, a female operates a sandwich store exactly where former inmates get again on their feet. It stars Uzo Aduba and Ron Cephas Jones.

Hayes Theatre, 240 W. forty fourth St. 212-541-4516.

What are the new COVID guidelines?

Like most all over the place else in New York City now, you will have to clearly show proof of vaccination (for occasion, your CDC card or an Excelsior Pass) to enter any Broadway theater. A unfavorable take a look at result will not lower it. Then, after inside, you will have to dress in a mask, even at your seat. These guidelines will continue to be in put till at the very least Oct. 31, but count on them to be prolonged. 

Bathrooms, you say? You’ll uncover that quite a few new shows are ninety minutes extended and have no intermission, to protect against crowding by the bar and bogs. But for shows with a single or two intermissions, the technique will be the exact same — crowded, snaking traces — but with masks.

Can I carry my children?

Bringing the children together to situations in New York these days can be bewildering. The Metropolitan Opera, for occasion, will not let kids below twelve for the time currently being right until they can be vaccinated.

Children can, on the other hand, quickly love Broadway yet again. “Aladdin” would be really awkward if they could not. Unvaccinated below-twelve-year-olds will will need to clearly show possibly a unfavorable PCR take a look at taken inside the earlier seventy two several hours or a unfavorable antigen take a look at taken inside the earlier six several hours. They have to mask up, also.

What about eating and consuming?

Don’t fret. Your $27 pinot grigio and $10 M&Ms are not going anyplace. But right after you acquire them at the bar, you’re predicted to carry them again to your seat, and only unmask when you’re having a sip or a chunk.

Are Theater District places to eat open yet again for evening meal?

A lot of are.

The famous Joe Allen (326 W. 46th St.) reopened on Wednesday evening. Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey was there for its kick-off evening meal company.

Italian mainstay Barbetta (321 W. 46th St.) is again, also. As is the preferred Bond forty five (221 W. 46th St.) and Hurley’s Saloon (232 W. 48th St.).

Be expecting the legendary Sardi’s (234 W. forty fourth St.) and Cafe Un Deux Trois (123 W. forty fourth St.) to reopen afterwards in the slide.

The Glass Household Tavern (252 W. 47th Road), exactly where the initial solid of “Hamilton” would hang out nightly, unlocked its doors to fanfare in July.

“It’s been fantastic to see our consumers,” Glass Household operator Chris Reilly informed The Article. “We wanted to be completely ready when persons were coming again in the town, and it is been fantastic to see all the Broadway community here. We’re really hunting forward to Broadway’s reopening.”