On Saturday, I went to a matinee of “The Music Man” on Broadway. Before entering, every person had to prove that they were fully vaccinated. Everyone in the audience wore masks.
We are used to that now.
What we are not used to yet is seeing a full Broadway musical, in all its glory, with a huge and very talented cast, wonderful sets and staging, and a large orchestra.
Sutton Foster as Marian the Librarian was excellent, as was Hugh Jackman as Professor Harold Hill.
The audience was ecstatic, applauding everything and everybody, every dance number and song.
Make plans to visit NYC in the spring or summer and book tickets well in advance. I promise you a delightful event.
Broadway is the beating heart of New York City, and Broadway is back!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
What a thrill. Sounds like New York is back!
Many, many ‘moons’ ago I lived in New York for a few years and…those great Broadway shows!!!
My husband and I went into NYC to see Cecily Strong in The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe at the Shed yesterday before it closed. Soooooo good and really timely – the insights about experiencing things together as humans in a theatre was spot on after the last two years of hibernating. What I don’t get about the antimasking antivaxxing Republicans is: Don’t they realize that life can get safely back to some approximation of normal if you take precautions like this, and it’s BETTER FOR BUSINESS IN THE LONG RUN???
I couldn’t agree more Diane! The Music Man is wonderful and Broadway is alive and well!
Cannot wait to see it!
My apologies for this comment being off topic, Dr. Ravitch, but I am working on a book which references you, and thought you might like to know of it, at least, while it is in Beta Reader stages. The working title is Do Better, and I can leave a link to the 5th draft, or to more information about Project Do Better, which this book is meant to inform, should you wish. All of the information about it is available on my blog.
Best Regards,
Shira
Shira Destinie Jones, MPhil
Shira, if you are comfortable doing so, leave a link.
Will do, thank you: https://shiradest.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/do-better-5th-draft-ready-for-reviews/
(I cite your blog on page
on pages 86, and 221, both regarding education here and in Europe.
ps: please let me know if you prefer another format, if you wish to read the entire book.
This book is now much shorter, polished, and published, freely available for community organizers and all others: https://shiradest.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/the-writing-is-done-the-umbrella-project-has-begun/