![]() ![]() Almost immediately, fears around the outbreak cause steep, tangible declines in the restaurant business in established Asian communities such as Chinatown and the San Gabriel Valley. 26, Los Angeles and Orange counties record their first cases brought back by travelers who have recently been in Wuhan, China. Health officials report the first novel coronavirus case in the United States (in Washington State) on Jan. It’s even harder to fathom the layers of tribulation that restaurant owners and their staffs have been through, starting with the painful time-loop pattern of shutdowns, punctuated by whiplash decisions from various government agencies that left heads spinning.Īs it became clear that the pandemic could stretch out indefinitely and that vaccines wouldn’t become available before the year’s end, questions with no static answers emerged: What are the best ways to protect restaurant workers? How do customers best support restaurants when the government fails to provide a financial safety net? Is ordering takeout enough? Do we buoy restaurants through merchandise, or online fundraising campaigns, or gift certificates? Is it enough to donate to restaurants partnering with nonprofits that are helping to feed medical workers? It’s hard for our minds to hold everything that’s happened in the last year. What happened in between those X-marks on the calendar is … a lot. The reopening came one day shy of the anniversary date - Mawhen Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ordered restaurants to discontinue dine-in service to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. “I don’t know if that’s going to happen because of the hurricane, but it sure would be great if it did.”Īssociated Press writer Mark Hamrick contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.Beginning March 14, restaurants in Los Angeles County opened their dining rooms (at partial capacity) after being barred from serving indoors for most of the past 12 months. “There was an enormous response and rally by people across this country, and frankly, from around the world, who felt this need to support New York,” she said. Martin, head of the league, wasn’t sure if Sandy would produce the same outpouring of help and concern that 9/11 triggered in the city. The lobby at its home at Astor Place is now a collection site for post-Sandy supplies.Ĭharlotte St. The infectious drumming show “Blue Man Group” was quieted, the immersive, genre-bending show “Sleep No More” was stilled, and The Public Theater was shut down for almost a week. The Canal Park Playhouse canceled all November and December performances. The SoHo Rep and The Bank Street Theater lost power and had some flooding, while many other downtown theaters lost power, including the MCC Theatre and SoHo Playhouse. Not only were 66 individual performances scrapped for Irene, but the storm struck during the busy summer, not the slower fall.īut Sandy may have hurt off-Broadway theaters more. The league said that the losses from Hurricane Irene were actually larger than for Sandy. It’s one of the oldest art forms known to man and it will continue,” said Weissler, who together with his wife, Fran, has produced such shows as “Grease,” “Chicago” and “Annie Get Your Gun.” “Storms will not stop us, the terrible tragedy of 9/11 will not stop us. 11 attacks, which shuttered theaters for two days, and Hurricane Irene in 2011 that wiped away a weekend’s revenue. Sandy joins other recent shocks to have rocked Broadway finances, including the Sept. ![]() The least hurt was “Rock of Ages,” which lost just $59,209. Other shows that took a beating include “Wicked,” which lost $490,996, though it still managed to pull in $1,166,275.
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