The long-running musical “Chicago” on Friday said it will return to Broadway beginning Sept. 14, after New York’s governor authorized theaters to begin operating at full capacity.
A production spokesperson confirmed the announcement to AFP, first reported by several United States entertainment outlets. As of Friday late morning, two-thirds of tickets available for the Tony-award winning show’s Sept. 14 date at the Ambassador Theatre were nabbed, according to the booking site Telecharge.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced Broadway to go dark since March 2020, and by the time the first curtain opens, theaters will have sat empty for 552 days.
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