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New York (AFP) - A musical about a Black and queer author won a top prize at the Broadway awards in New York on Sunday, while a play about Lehman Brothers and a Michael Jackson biopic also triumphed at the Oscars of the theater. The 75th Tony Awards concluded a season of renewal for the theaters of the American cultural capital, which reopened in the fall of 2021 after 18 months of closure because of Covid-19. Wall Street finance story "The Lehman Trilogy" emerged victorious with five awards, including best play, best actor (Simon Russell Beale) and best director (Sam Mendes). The play by Ita...
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New York (AFP) - The re-imagined version of the popular musical "West Side Story" will not reopen on Broadway, its producer said Monday, an indirect victim of the Covid-19 pandemic's effect on New York's theater industry. The revived production opened in February last year but was forced to shutter just one month later as the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the city. "It is with great regret that we are announcing today that the 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story will not reopen," producer Kate Horton said in a statement. "For a variety of reasons, reopening is not a practical proposit...
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New York (AFP) - "We will be back!" a dozen singers proclaimed in the middle of New York's Times Square, in a pop-up event commemorating the one-year anniversary of Broadway going dim. A clear sense of optimism filled the air -- despite the "Closed" signs still darkening the doors of nearby theaters. With the latest wave of Covid-19 now under control, amid a massive vaccination program and as some theaters partially reopen, New York is "definitely starting to get some more life right now," said Ryann Redmond, who performed in the musical "Frozen" before the pandemic forced Broadway's closin...
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New York (AFP) - Broadway theaters will remain closed until at least the end of May 2021, the industry's trade association said Friday, a fresh sign that the 2020-21 season will be a low point for live entertainment in the United States.Shows had first been expected to reopen in early September, a deadline which was put off to the beginning of January.But the Broadway League decided to delay again until May 30, 2021 as the coronavirus continues to rage across the country, as well in New York, which was the first epicenter of the disease in the United States."With nearly 97,000 workers who rel...
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