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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]COVID is endemic. Get used to it.[/quote]

There are certain circumstances in which a minor inconvenience is worth the benefit. Shutting down an entire Broadway is what happens when a cast member is positive. Cancelling shows not only impacts the actors you see on stage, but everyone involved in its production. No one gets paid. The ripple effect of money loss impacts people already struggling to pay rent/utilities/food. I really wonder about the morals and basic human decency of the people who complain about wearing a mask in this circumstance. Think about the world bigger than yourself. [/quote]

+1,000

Someone leaped on you earlier, PP,  for mentioning Broadway where masks are now optional, I know you meant Broadway shows at the KC. But I'll add that I know a couple of people who work in theater in NY and DC, and the crews and casts would much rather audiences were still masking, especially as there's no way to tell if people are truly vaccinated or not (cards don't mean a lot). But the theaters must get backsides into seats or they'll fail and the whole theater business will suffer even more than it already has over the past two years. People who go to the occasional big production at the Kennedy Center and nothing else don't want to realize that there are jobbing actors, crew members, front of house staff, production staff, cleaners, concessionaires in hundreds of theaters all over the country, not just on Broadway and at the KC, who ALL depend on shows going forward in order to pay their bills.

Another snarky PP mentioned not "buying it" that the theater world is really concerned, unless productions keep everyone in a bubble. Some theaters actually did that during the worst of the pandemic, doing productions with no in-person audience and streaming the shows, and asking actors and certain crew to go into bubbles for weeks on end. It was noble and created some moving theater, but it is not permanently sustainable because actors and crew have families too. Productions are testing everyone, every day, and being very alert about testing and exposures, but what else can they do, other than mask ON stage? Then we'd have PPs here screaming about how they didn't pay to see masked actors. So asking audiences to mask is at least an attempt to acknowledge that performers and crews are there among hundreds of total strangers, show after show after show. [/quote]

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