4-16, 2022, at the Emerson Colonial Theatre), “Pretty Woman: The Musical,” (Jan.

“We want of course to start as soon as possible to get people back in the theater, but we need to do it in the best and safest way possible,” Marcus said in the interview.Īt present, tickets are on sale only to subscribers, with sales to the general public to open up at a later date. Socially distanced seating might not be economically viable at large venues like the Citizens Bank Opera House and the Emerson Colonial Theatre, where Broadway In Boston plans to present its shows, all but one of them musicals. Given the complex scheduling logistics and the built-in costs of mounting the large-scale touring productions of Broadway shows that Broadway In Boston specializes in, anything less than 100 percent capacity would pose a major organizational challenge. “Our hope is that by November we’ll be in a place where we can have 100 percent capacity.”

“This provides a huge runway before November,” he said in a telephone interview Monday. Broadway In Boston’s announcement of its 2021-2022 season, one of the first in the region by a major theater organization, amounts to a bet that a full return to live, indoor performances will be possible in Boston by late fall.īroadway in Boston vice president Tivon Marcus, explaining the timing of the hoped-for resumption of live theater under his organization’s aegis, cited the wider distribution of vaccines as an encouraging sign.

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