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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m seeing Hamilton this week and did not realize until I received my ‘reminder’ email that this is still a requirement. [b]They have to be one of the only places (with the exception of hospitals/doctor’s offices) to require this![/b]

Will really dampen the experience. [/quote]

There was a very similar thread here very recently. I actually thought this was the same thread.

The KC is far from being "one of the only places" to do this. Every theater we've been to this spring and summer still requires masks. I said on that other thread: At one play we attended not long ago, the stage manager came out (masked) and thanked the audience and said of us and the crew, "WE mask so the actors don't have to."

[b]OP, one case of covid, even an asymptomatic positive test, can bring a whole production to a halt. [/b]We saw a play in DC recently (not at the KC) where one cast member was out for a positive test the night we saw it; that play missed a few shows the next week, with several cast members positive; and they came back briefly it seems before all the final shows were cancelled. That means cast and crew out of work, lost revenues for the theater potentially. Some productions are trying to have actors limit outisde contact as much as possible, but actors have families just like the rest of us, so....And actors are working hard in front of audiences who are, sure, more than six feet away--but who are in the hundreds, all sharing the same air space. I'd rather see actors working without masks on their faces, wouldn't you? That's why theaters want audiences to mask.

And  please don't think that understudies are a magical solution. Many productions do not have them at all and where there are understudies, those actors often are understudying more than one role while playing roles themselves. So there's no perfect solution of "X is out with a positive test, send in X's understudy" becasue that understudy may already be on stage replacing actor Y, who was already out sick....

So please just mask up with good grace. You should be so into the show, you won't even notice.

It isn't about "geriatric" patrons as some other PPs have said. It's about the fact that theater companies -- especially [i]traveling[/i] productions like "Hamilton"  with many cities, tons of potential exposures -- know that if even one actor gets Covid, it can have a terrible domino effect. 
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This is exactly right.  It's a business/revenue protection measure.  [/quote]

But again, a loose cotton mask is protecting no one. [/quote]
Let it go. Folks at the Kennedy Center are either wearing the KN95s or [b]using the surgical masks provided for people who show up without them[/b]. Believe it or not, most people are properly masked. We just went to Hamilton and I was surprised at how compliant people are. [/quote]

This is the joke. [/quote]

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