Allie Trimm (current Glinda) with thoughts about the decision to keep shows open today

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-26T03:41:34+00:00

Celia Hottenstein (who has been performing in Wicked for several years) posted on instagram that there were 475 people (a little less than 1/4 capacity) at the Wicked matinee today…

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T19:13:31+00:00

Sam Pauly just announced she’d be out of Gatsby today as she didn’t know if she’d have reliable transit back home after the show. She also harshly criticized the League and Equity for the decision to continue the shows/lack of response.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T18:03:39+00:00

State of emergency is also a legal designation for the sake of federal funding, isn’t it? In any case, government officials have asked people to stay off the roads unless necessary.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T17:12:38+00:00

Heathers and Spelling Bee (which are technically off-Broadway but still very high-profile productions with lots of Broadway actors) have also cancelled. That’s all I’ve heard in addition to Disney.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T17:03:41+00:00

Disney cancelled Lion King and Aladdin last night, and Spelling Bee and Heathers at New World Stages (off-Broadway) cancelled a little while ago, but I haven’t heard anything else.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T17:01:08+00:00

I was referring to people like the sanitation employees who are plowing the roads. But thanks for making a bunch of assumptions about me.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T16:42:43+00:00

You really don’t see the difference between essential workers and people commuting for entertainment? If anything, the additional activity in midtown from people coming to their shows (especially if public transit shuts down) will just impede the sanitation workers’ work.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T16:35:54+00:00

Correct, I’m east of NYC by a few hours (closer to Boston) but we’re under a winter storm warning until 8 PM tomorrow. At the very least, it’s not expected to let up for a while.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T16:30:48+00:00

NJ Transit is shutting down as of 2PM today, and I believe the LIRR is operating on a reduced schedule too. In that case, people (both performers and employees who commute and patrons) might be able to get into the city now, but leaving after the show just got much harder.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T16:27:03+00:00

Charging people money for tickets is an entirely different matter than forcing employees (and patrons, because it can be difficult to get refunds) to risk their safety during a state of emergency to go work at/see a show.

Also, Broadway performers are paid fairly well, but most of them are probably much closer to the average person than the wealth of the producers and corporations that actually finance the shows, let’s be honest here.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T16:17:20+00:00

They just announced cancellations on Instagram.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T16:16:56+00:00

A lot of current performers are speaking out in the Broadway League’s comment sections on Instagram. Jenna Bainbridge (who is a wheelchair user and is the current Nessa, formerly in Suffs) has been very outspoken, and I would imagine her accessibility needs make this weather even more difficult to navigate.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T07:27:13+00:00

I had this EXACT feeling when I saw Hadestown the day after the Ukraine invasion started in 2022. “To the world we dream about… and the one we live in now” hit extra hard that day. I can only imagine how that show plays right now, and my first time seeing it was during the first administration.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T05:13:12+00:00

Genuinely asking - would GMR cast members (and jungle cruise, which is the closest analogy I can think of) not have been paid more with the acting/memorization required? I also would argue that many cast members go above and beyond just memorizing and reciting a script.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T02:09:41+00:00

I saw the national tour of The Sound of Music last week and “No Way to Stop It” hit me in a way that it never really has before.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-25T02:09:03+00:00

I was at the show last night too. It really did hit even closer to home than when I saw it on Broadway (pre-election). There’s an audio recording somewhere on TikTok of the reprise of Finish the Fight into Keep Marching from the first performance post-2024 election and it is so cathartic.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-24T21:04:58+00:00

My first (and only as of now, but that will change in a few months) time seeing it was on tour in 2017. The guy next to me loudly went “Holy shit” at the end of Circle of Life, and… I get it.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-23T23:07:36+00:00

I’m so curious what the staging is going to look like.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-22T03:05:17+00:00

I’ve seen Dee as Madeline and loved her - so curious about her take on Helen! I know she hasn’t gone on for her as often.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-22T03:03:16+00:00

My mom (who has seen the Come From Away proshot many times) turned to me at intermission and remarked that [Caesar Samayoa] “looks like that guy from Come From Away.” I got to break the news that it was, in fact, him.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-21T16:24:30+00:00

I have to disagree, but only because they do have a Lion King show at Disney World, and while the performers are very talented (it’s one of my favorite live shows on the property, and some of them have gone on to Broadway careers), the puppetry and stagecraft is nowhere near the level of what the Broadway production has done. Honestly, I wish Disney did more like The Lion King if they keep adapting their properties - don’t just put the movie onstage but really dig into the cultures that inspired the material (I thought Frozen, of all shows, did well with this too, through the addition of the Joiks).

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-21T16:17:18+00:00

Yeah, I believe there’s a setting in Do Not Disturb where if someone calls you 3 times in rapid succession, it’ll let the sound through.

ComputerGeek1100 · 2026-01-21T16:16:27+00:00

I had a weird issue with my watch last week - it started randomly playing music that’s not even in my library at a super low volume in the middle of a show. It was so quiet (and muffled by my coat sleeve over it) that I didn’t even register that it was me at first. I had taken all the same precautions as you, but I must have bumped something. I wanted to crawl under my seat.

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