But it did not make it to Christmas, or even to the vacation many city schoolchildren will begin next week.
Four of the 32 current shows running on Broadway canceled their performances Friday night, including “Moulin Rouge!,” which hopes to resume on Saturday; “Hamilton” and “Mrs.
In a sign of the increasing level of concern over the Omicron variant, the Metropolitan Opera on Wednesday became the first major performing arts institution in New York to unveil a booster mandate: Beginning Jan.
may portend a surge in infections as soon as January, but cases are already spiking, leading offices to cancel holiday parties, Broadway performances to be shuttered and college finals to be moved online.
While Omicron appears to be able to partially evade antibodies, it could be less severe than other forms of the virus, and new laboratory studies indicate that vaccines, and especially boosters, may offer protection against severe disease.
This past week, Covid deaths in the United States surpassed 800,000 — the highest known number of any country.
And under the Music Hall’s policy, masks were recommended but not required for artists, cast and crew members.