In the bleak midwinter of 2021, while much of the world is still facing lockdown restrictions and the ongoing closure of theatres, some welcome and exciting news has been announced – BroadwayHD will be partnering with The RSC to release a collection of pre-recorded shows together.
The Metropolitan Opera, one of the largest performing arts institutions in the United States, just announced that it will remain closed until September 2021. They also announced that they will reopen with a new opera by a Black composer, the first Black composer in the organization’s 140-year history. Opera, Broadway, dance, and theater-makers are taking the long overdue and necessary steps for the changes needed in the industry in terms of the LGBTQ community, sexism, and racism both behind and in front of and the curtain. I don’t want to be insensitive to those theater-makers experiencing hardships, but the COVID-19 shutdown has given us an opportunity for a global reset.
Come on along and listen to, the Lullaby of Broadway… They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway…Give my regards to Broadway, remember me to Herald Square. There are many songs written about and on the topic of Broadway. One of America’s oldest past times, Broadway, who has had many ups and downs in the past, is facing I believe the “downest” it has ever experienced. The 2020 pandemic shut the lights out for the longest in America history.
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