But while there’s music and moonlight and love and romance
Let’s face the music and dance.”
– Irving Berlin, 1936
After Mariah Carey blamed technical glitches for her disastrous New Year’s Eve performance in Times Square seen around the world, she wrote a Tweet that can serve as a succinct summary both of 2016 and 2017.
Shit happens 😩 Have a happy and healthy new year everybody!🎉 Here’s to making more headlines in 2017 😂 pic.twitter.com/0Td8se57jr
— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) January 1, 2017
Many Americans are nervously anticipating those 2017 headlines. Theater activists, girding for what many see as a year requiring resistance, have announced The Ghostlight Project, which will be begin with a gathering outside theaters of all sorts across the nation on the eve of the Presidential inauguration. Locally, a new winter theater festival called The Resister Project, with 10 new plays created in response to “a divisive political campaign,” promises to be one of many such efforts.
LOOKING AHEAD
Broadway Poll: Favorite Spring 2017 show?
Broadway Closings
Closed December 31:
Fiddler on the Roof
Closed January 1, 2017:
The Illusionists
Matilda
Something Rotten
Closing January 8, 2017:
The Color Purple
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
The Encounter
Falsettos
Closing January 15, 2017:
Jersey Boys
The Humans
Holiday Inn
Closing January 22
Oh Hello
Closing January 29
The Front Page
(If tickets are not available through the box office, try buying tickets here)
The Drama Book Shop , a favorite theater hangout, begins its 100th year
.@dramabookshop 100th anniversary book signings/chats. Meet:@SamuelDHunter Jan 6#HarrietWalker Feb 6@RobertOHaraNY Feb 10 pic.twitter.com/fUKsVfzOCB
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 2, 2017
LOOKING BEHIND
Memorable Moments on Stage in 2016
Ring IN The Old: Broadway stars aged 90 to 104
IN MEMORIAM
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.
Happy New Year Y'all! 2017 pic.twitter.com/0uaRkTpY3W
— Christopher Jackson (@ChrisisSingin) January 1, 2017
HAPPY 2071! 🎉 HashtagHappyNewYear pic.twitter.com/B8mqmuPxeO
— Play That Goes Wrong (@BwayGoesWrong) January 1, 2017
