THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: BROADWAY'S RETURN IS TRIUMPHANT, BUT UNCERTAINTY LOOMS: “HUMANS HAVE TO BE AS IMPORTANT AS THE SHOW”

When Broadway returned this fall, it reopened to thunderous applause — and a rave.

Deejayed by none other than theater legend Andrew Lloyd Webber and held on the street and sidewalk in front of the Majestic Theatre, the flashing lights and reverberating beats that accompanied the Phantom of the Opera club remix during the show’s reopening night party made it impossible to miss that theater was finally back.

The electric energy fueling the return of Broadway’s longest-running show has since echoed throughout theaters across the Great White Way following the official curtain-raising on Sept. 14. A web of reopenings and debuts have functioned like a heartbeat, with an initial 12 shows in September, and now more than 30, pumping life back into the same city blocks that stood muted by the pandemic for over a year.

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