Should the American Theater Take French Lessons?
Arts workers are protesting closings and occupying playhouses all over France. On Broadway, that drama has yet to open.
Performers in front of the Odéon Theater in Paris, which workers have occupied since March 4.Credit.Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Published March 17, 2021Updated March 19, 2021
The only march you’re likely to see on Broadway this year is the kind with trombones in “The Music Man.”
And if you ever hear people say the Majestic Theater has been forcibly occupied, you can be pretty sure they’re referring to “The Phantom of the Opera.”