‘What a mess we are all in’: Travelers scrap plans to visit New York City as omicron shutters performances
Broadway. “But seeing news that ‘Moulin Rouge,’ ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ and ‘Hamilton’ are all dark because of COVID, I just don’t feel like I can risk making the trip.”
She continued that she is “truly heartbroken” but can’t wrap her head around the idea of going to New York without access to Broadway shows. “What a mess we are all in.”
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Broadway, Radio City, Alvin Ailey cancel performances
Multiple Broadway shows, including “Hamilton,” “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” called off performances in recent days because of virus cases in their all-vaccinated casts and crews. California and New York brought back indoor mask mandates.
The Radio City Rockettes on Friday canceled its remaining shows this season due to “increasing challenges from the pandemic.”
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater also canceled its performances Thursday through Sunday.
Like Krasovich, Becky Lease, 28 from Baltimore, planned to visit New York City for her birthday, which is Monday, with her best friend. But COVID put a pin in her plans, at least for now.
“We were going to see ‘Six, Hadestown,’ ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ and ‘Moulin Rouge,'” Lease told USA TODAY. “JLP and Moulin Rouge, as of last night, had closed from COVID. We didn’t want to pay for the hotel and all, get there, and the other two canceled.”