Long tweet: If you plan on watching ‘Hamilton’. or you loved the ‘Chicago’ movie or if ‘Sound of Music’ is a holiday tradition for you. THEY ALL started on a stage.
Now Broadway is shut down till Jan 2021.
ALL of the following people are out work. It’s not just the actors.

For those of you not in the theatre community. Please understand the scope of Broadway/off Broadway being shut down. Frankly for all theatre anywhere. It travels much further than the stage boards where you see the brilliant performers giving you an amazing show. You also have:

Scenic Artists
-Stage managers
-Company managers
-House managers
-General managers
-Dressers
-Hair/Makeup
-Carpenters
-Electrics
-Sound

Ushers; Bartenders; Box office staff; Props; Musicians; Sound; Porters; Cleaners; Matrons; Merchandise; Security; Marketing; Producers; (more)

Directors; Choreographers; Authors; Orch Arrangers; Interns; Press Teams; Casting Dir.; Set, Costume, Hair/Makeup, Lighting, Sound & Prop Designers; All the design assts.; Vocal/dialect coaches; Child Guardians; Doormen; Operations; Production Managers; Development

See some others this shutdown also affects in the theatre district: Costume shops; Costume rental houses for period garments; retail stores; thrift shops; millinery shops ; cobblers; wigmakers; fabric shops; scenic shops; Prop shops; Sound/Lighting shops; Design studios; (more)

Rehearsal spaces; Merch vendors; concessions; Advertising & press agencies; Talent agencies; Union offices; Producer & general mgmt offices.

Dig deeper into the shutdown & see the biz that is lost in the theatre district from just the people in the industry not working on a show (plus loss of audience members buying stuff at): Delis; Restaurants; Bars; Coffee shops; Hotels; Garages; Gyms; Phys therapists.

If that list seems long- it is! And that’s just New York. That’s not even taking into scope all the theatre around this country. And for most of us- this is our whole life.
To Our Mayor and Governor- help this industry that brought NYC $1.758 Bn last year @NYGovCuomo @NYCMayor