Broadway’s recent and ongoing surge in Covid cancellations is one of those shocking but not surprising things – New Yorkers knew instinctively since theaters reopened in September that …
now? Is there anything else Broadway should be doing to lessen the impact of the Omicron variant? The Broadway League has indicated that another industry-wide shutdown is not being considered, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio stated bluntly this week, “No more shutdowns.”
Deadline spoke to two experts to discuss these and other Omicron issues: Dr. Jon LaPook and Dr. Joseph G. Allen. LaPook is the Chief Medical Correspondent, CBS News, and Professor of Medicine, NYU Langone Health. He’ll be familiar to many in the Broadway community – and its fans – for his role of chief medical correspondent for, the YouTube and streaming series hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley that raises funds for The Actors Fund.
“I think when all the controls are in place,” Allen tells Deadline, “including the audience being masked, everyone is vaccinated, everyone on stage is vaccinated, hopefully boostered, and also testing negative, I think the risks of transmission from cast to the audience and from audience to the performers can be made low.”Let’s just sort of start with the basics.
One way to think about it is this: We have very little spread happening outdoors. Why is that? Because we have unlimited dilution, unlimited ventilation. So we need to make the indoors look a lot more like the outdoors. Bring in more of that fresh outdoor air. Because of the way we design buildings, the codes right now are minimum standards designed around energy efficiency. We’ve choked off the air supply in our buildings.
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