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As New York City braces for Hurricane Irene, the show won’t go on for the Broadway community after all. After it was announced today that the city’s mass transit system will begin to suspend service Saturday at noon ET to give workers enough time to secure trains and other equipment, a weather alert on the Broadway League’s official site now says: “All Broadway performances in NYC on Saturday, August 27th and Sunday, August 28th will be cancelled. If tickets were purchased via Telecharge or Ticketmaster via phone or online, your credit card will be refunded automatically within 7-10 business days. If tickets were purchased through any other sales channel, please return to the original point of purchase for more information.”Â
A lot of Off Broadway shows and productions like Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana at Radio City Music Hall have also cancelled performances on Saturday and Sunday. In fact, if you have tickets to any venue in the city (or on the East Coast) this weekend, call before you head out.
The NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment tells EW it has revoked filming permits that had been issued for New York City for Sunday, Aug. 28, due to Hurricane Irene. The six small productions that were scheduled to shoot this weekend had already voluntarily rearranged their schedules because of the weather. Cancelled concerts include Dave Matthews Band Caravan and B.B. King’s Rib Rock Festival.
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That’s stupid. It’s a freakin’ hurricane! Stay home.
I agree!
I agree that going to see a play during a hurricane is stupid! Not with that annoying Lucy!! lol
Oh no, Spiderman the Broadway Musical will not be available to go and see. I feel so depressed. lol
Just spent a fortune in July for 7tickets to Lion King with insurance just in case because with kids you never know..Now they are telling me it doesn’t incude weather. It does say unforseen events. Well don’t you think shutting down the city, evacuations and a huricane are unforseen events. I am definitely going to fight this .Mr Mayor not just tourists go to broadway but your nyc residents also go. traveling from Staten Island and Long Island is a bit much during a hurricane
That seems ridiculous; you don’t get to see it because they are shut down, yet they won’t refund your tickets? What? Yes, fight it.
Yes, donna, that seems absurd. It seems like that is the very definition of “unforeseen events”.
How are the actors and staff expected to get to the theater if subways are shut down? This is absurd.
A boat and a paddle perhaps
I expect it’s easier for them to keep the shows going as scheduled and cancel them later if they need to than it would be to cancel the show and then have it go on anyway if the hurricane weakens at all or changes course. Producing a Broadway show is really expensive, and cancelling the shows would huge (particularly for those that are consistently sold out) if the weather turns out not to be as bad as expected.
They will have to go do Spiderman down by the 7-11 with some headlights from volunteers.
Common sense, people! Shut it down!
I had plans to go to NYC on Saturday to see the Harry Potter exhibition before it closed, HP8, and DanRad in How to Succeed. That’s not happening. I really hope I can get a refund for my theater tickets!
All shows have been cancelled for the weekend.
I guess you can’t go on with a Broadway show if the roof’s been blown off.
Yes, isn’t that a shame?
So glad to see logic finally prevailed.!! Even if Irene is only half as bad as they think,
Like Obama, it looks like if Irene has failed to deliver.
we have tickets to spiderman sept1/11. Our flt/and airports were cx due to hurricane irene and could not come from bc canada. Our first time in NYc! Broadway.com would not reund or give us a credit. Over $300 worth of tickets. Very bad business. Will never book with them or refer anyone else!! Very Very disappointed!
It does say unforseen events. Well don’t you think shutting down the city, evacuations and a huricane are unforseen events.
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