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An Empty Theater

Title (Dublin Core)

An Empty Theater

Description (Dublin Core)

Every year for the last 20 years, our community has planned, practiced, and performed a tribute to Broadway in a production called "Best of Broadway". We have a cast of over 100 local community members that sing and dance to 20 or so different Broadway songs. Our rehearsals are in an old Veterans Memorial building that comes to life during January to March with our songs, lights, and energy. The chants in the hall echos against the old walls, the stomping of feet on the stage threatens those downstairs, and the beat of the music pumps your heart. When one is in the hall, they are guaranteed to hear laughter in the back corner, a director shouting at the sound guy, and a piercing squeal in the speakers. The sounds in the hall define the busy enthusiasm of the cast and crew. However, this year, our production was shut down the day before our opening night due to Covid-19. The heartbreak of working for months on a show that was cancelled was devastating. After our annual production, we always have a day to clean and put our props and costumes away and clean the hall. But, this year, we just...left. The hall remains filled with our Broadway stuff. And when someone walks into the building, the silence of a show that was never performed is deafening.
My video of our chant during a cast meeting in our theater.

Date (Dublin Core)

October 14, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Carla Dollar

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Carla Dollar

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

video

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Art & Design
English Public Art
English Entertainment: Movies, Theater, etc.
English Social Distance
English Business & Industry
English Emotion
English Community & Community Organizations

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Broadway
sensory history
sound
devastation
performance

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

broadway
song
Susanville
deafening
sound
canceled
devastating

Collection (Dublin Core)

English Performing Arts

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history contribution to COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/14/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/16/2020
03/05/2021

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on October 14, 2020 by Carla Dollar using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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