One night after official return, ‘Aladdin’ Broadway show cancels performance due to COVID-19

I mean, there's probably so much that we learned, but I we will return with a new renewed sense of gratitude and purpose for the performers. That's certainly true. I mean, like you said, it's just it was it was unfathomable to be without this thing for as long as we've gone without it. So I think we're going to return with a new sense of gratitude just to have a live performance back. I started going to other shows a couple of weeks ago and it's just an amazing feeling. Yeah, it's just and you sense that what the audiences to the audiences are overjoyed, they're happy to see the shows, but they're happy to just see one another to be in the same room with other people. It's really exciting. It makes me want to write. Like honestly all it does is make me want to write because it was such a thrill to see Hamilton with that incredible audience last Tuesday night when we reopened and you know, Covid put all my movies into the same year and I was supposed to come out last year, was supposed to come out last year. They came out this year. I tick tick boom incanto. And then once I'm on the other side of that, I'm gonna go sit at home and like tuck my kids in and write the next show. It's nothing nothing in the world that is a substitute for live theater. You know, you can see it on, you know, any kind of screening, you can see it on, you know, screaming, you can see it on all of that. but it's not the same, it's never the same as being in the building and having that fantastic experience of being with an audience and loving a show. It's coming back and that's a great thing, you know, it really is, it's a great thing is coming back and I feel I feel grateful because I'm working on something and I want to see, you know, I like to do a table read again and and have a live band and everything that we always did, you know, instead of the zoom thing, which I hate. Um you know, I actually haven't stepped into a theater yet because I just got here yesterday and so I'm excited to take in theater myself, but you know, it I think it's it's gonna be a little different, but that's just by because you have to wear a mask to be vaccinated, all that stuff. But I think the energy that you get from being in a theater with an audience and having that live theatre experience, there's nothing like it. And I think it was my, my honor definitely to be here, but my duty to be here to kind of give recognition to this beautiful community that is back and thriving and uh you know, it's been a tough year for for our everyone. Yeah, so

One night after official return, 'Aladdin' Broadway show cancels performance due to COVID-19

Updated: 12:41 PM EDT Sep 30, 2021

Video above: Broadway stars share their excitement at the TonysA performance of Disney's "Aladdin" on Broadway was canceled Wednesday — one night after the show's return to the theater — because of COVID-19 cases detected in the theater company, show runners said.It is the first known show cancellation due to COVID-19 since Broadway began reopening earlier this month after shutting down in March 2020 due to the pandemic."Through our rigorous testing protocols, breakthrough COVID-19 cases have been detected within the company of Aladdin at The New Amsterdam Theatre," the show said Wednesday in a tweet. "We will continue to provide support to the affected Aladdin company members as they recover."Show runners didn't say how many COVID-19 cases were detected, noting they will provide more information Thursday regarding future performances.Broadway is big business for New York's economy — an estimated 97,000 people are employed by shows. And when COVID-19 first swept across the U.S., it made New York City one of the first virus hotspots, forcing theaters to shutter for about 18 months.This month, theaters began gradually reopening, raising their curtains with health measures in place to help protect against the spread of coronavirus.All of New York's 41 Broadway theaters require eligible audiences, crews, performers and other staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Broadway League's policy. Children under 12 and those unvaccinated due to health conditions or religious reasons must provide a negative COVID-19 test to be granted entry. Audience members are also required to be masked inside theaters.Breakthrough cases occur when someone tests positive for COVID-19 at least 14 days after they have been fully vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Such infections can cause disease with symptoms but some vaccinated people who become infected with COVID-19 show no symptoms at all. Research has shown that if people become infected after vaccination, typically they get a milder case.New York is one of the most vaccinated states in the nation, with more than 63% of its residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19, CDC data showed Wednesday.

Video above: Broadway stars share their excitement at the Tonys

A performance of Disney's "Aladdin" on Broadway was canceled Wednesday — one night after the show's return to the theater — because of COVID-19 cases detected in the theater company, show runners said.

It is the first known show cancellation due to COVID-19 since Broadway began reopening earlier this month after shutting down in March 2020 due to the pandemic.

"Through our rigorous testing protocols, breakthrough COVID-19 cases have been detected within the company of Aladdin at The New Amsterdam Theatre," the show said Wednesday in a tweet. "We will continue to provide support to the affected Aladdin company members as they recover."

Show runners didn't say how many COVID-19 cases were detected, noting they will provide more information Thursday regarding future performances.

Broadway is big business for New York's economy — an estimated 97,000 people are employed by shows. And when COVID-19 first swept across the U.S., it made New York City one of the first virus hotspots, forcing theaters to shutter for about 18 months.

This month, theaters began gradually reopening, raising their curtains with health measures in place to help protect against the spread of coronavirus.

All of New York's 41 Broadway theaters require eligible audiences, crews, performers and other staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Broadway League's policy. Children under 12 and those unvaccinated due to health conditions or religious reasons must provide a negative COVID-19 test to be granted entry. Audience members are also required to be masked inside theaters.

Breakthrough cases occur when someone tests positive for COVID-19 at least 14 days after they have been fully vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Such infections can cause disease with symptoms but some vaccinated people who become infected with COVID-19 show no symptoms at all. Research has shown that if people become infected after vaccination, typically they get a milder case.

New York is one of the most vaccinated states in the nation, with more than 63% of its residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19, CDC data showed Wednesday.