Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know”
BY SETH ABRAMOVITCH | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT As blockbuster shows like 'Wicked' and 'The Lion King' plot a September return to the New York stage, rising Delta variant cases and unclear cast-testing protocols create uncertainty. The July 19 shuttering of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of Cinderella just hours ahead of its world premiere in London is the latest major setback to that city’s once-thriving theaterindustry, decimated by the pandemic. A strict government contact-tracing program has led to a string of high-profile show closings, The Prince of Egypt and Hairspray among them. Closely watching the fallout unfolding across the pond are the producers, performers and publicists who…