Broadway theaters aren’t expected to reopen up in New York City for quite a long time, Deadline sources saying not before 2021. And according to New York State governor’s recent reopeni…
E-Walk 4DX & RPX and AMC’s Lincoln Center are among the top grossing locations in the country. Surely a studio will need them to make bank during an event pic’s opening weekend, even at 25% to 50% reduced auditorium capacities.is currently lobbying New York state to get movie theaters changed to phase 3. That would put them in the same reopening category as restaurants and other food-service businesses that have dine-in service.
“The major difference between Broadway theaters and movie theaters are the size of our auditoriums,” says New York State NATO Executive Director Robert Sunshine, “Movie theaters should be in phase 3. There’s no way you can compare movie theaters with big concert halls, sporting arenas or Broadway theatres. Movie theaters should be in the same category as restaurants, and classified as food service establishments.
Consider the fact that even a small Broadway theater like the Hudson Theatre which recently played David Byrne’sseats 954, with larger musical theaters such as the Gershwin counting 1,933 seats, the Lyric Theatre which playsat 1,756 and the Minskoff at 1,692. Indeed, Broadway theaters have different configurations than cinemas with incredibly tight seating, live actors and plenty of tourists coming through. Broadway theaters have a high overhead, and must sell as many seats as possible.
“For us, we can stagger theater times, stagger when people arrive and leave. In auditoriums that have recliner seats, social distancing is already in place. Those auditoriums with reclining seats only average about 120 seats,” Sunshine tells Deadline.could reopen as early as this Friday, May 15. This came, according to the WSJ, after some theaters throughout New York state petitioned for an exemption from shutdown orders, saying that consumers can stay safe while in their cars.
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