Whereas uncommon within the trade, that is the second time Second Stage has simulcast a play from the Hayes Theater.
Second Stage Theater will deliver again its simulcast streaming of Broadway performances this winter with Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Between Riverside and Loopy.
The non-profit theater firm will promote tickets to live-streamed performances of the play, which will even be taking place in entrance of a dwell viewers, from Jan. 31 via Feb. 12, 2023, the final two scheduled weeks of the play’s run. Whereas uncommon within the trade, because of the prices concerned and concern of cannibalizing the viewers, that is the second time the theater firm has simulcast a Broadway play from the Hayes Theater.
Final 12 months, Second Stage launched this system by simulcasting 14 performances of Lynn Nottage’s Clydes over the past two weeks of its run in January and within the thick of the omicron variant. Eleven of the 14 simulcast performances bought out, with 78 p.c of viewers coming from exterior New York Metropolis. This system is meant to broaden accessibility and viewers numbers for Broadway reveals, and the simulcast comes as viewers numbers on Broadway are usually decrease within the first few months of the 12 months.
“We're very happy to as soon as once more supply a simulcast viewing choice — in real-time — from our Broadway dwelling, the Hayes Theater,” Second Stage Govt Director Khady Kamar mentioned within the press launch. “This distinctive program considerably broadened our viewers with final 12 months’s manufacturing of Clyde’s and we're excited to renew this program by simulcasting a dwell Broadway efficiency of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play into individuals’s houses this winter.”
To simulcast, Second Stage makes use of 5 to seven cameras to shoot the play, with footage edited dwell all through the efficiency. The cameras shall be remotely operated and positioned discreetly all through the theater.
Widespread will make his Broadway debut in Between Riverside and Loopy, starring as Junior, the just lately paroled son of ex-cop Walter “Pops” Washington, performed by Stephen McKinley Henderson. The pair struggle to carry onto their condominium, one of many final rent-stabilized models on Riverside Drive, and within the course of, deliver up outdated wounds.
The play gained the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, after an Off-Broadway run on the Atlantic Theater Firm and a second run produced by Second Stage at its Off-Broadway Tony Kiser Theater.
Widespread and Henderson, who additionally appeared within the Off-Broadway runs, will star alongside a number of different authentic forged members, together with Victor Almanzar, Elizabeth Canavan, Rosal Colón, Liza Colón-Zayas and Michael Rispoli.