The first Broadway show to welcome a live audience is likely to get a lot of attention. The big budget Disney musical “Frozen” decided not to reopen when Broadway theaters restart and producers of the musical “Mean Girls” also decided not to return. But there will be new shows, including Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s “Pass Over” that is slated to reopen the August Wilson Theatre, the same venue “Mean Girls” has vacated. All city theaters abruptly closed on March 12, 2020, knocking out all shows, including 16 that were still scheduled to open. But others abandoned their plans, including “Hangmen” and a revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”———Mark Kennedy is at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits

Source: ABC News May 24, 2021 13:52 UTC