While today’s Broadway matinees are expected to go on as planned, performances scheduled for tonight have been canceled due to the anticipated blizzard and evening travel bans.
The announcement was made by the Broadway League just before 11 a.m. ET today.
The statement reads: “Due to anticipated travel impacts from the impending blizzard and evening travel bans already announced for our surrounding areas, Broadway theatre owners and producers have come to the consensus that evening performances (curtain times at 6pm or later) tonight (Sunday, February 22) will be canceled.”
The League noted that ass of 10:30 a.m., Operation Mincemeat has not cancelled its 7:30 p.m. evening performance. (Deadline confirmed that as of 11:30 a.m. tickets were still being sold for the musical.)
Broadway matinee performances (curtain times at 3 p.m. or earlier) are proceeding as planned. (Evening performances have curtain times of 6 p.m. or later).
For questions about exchange or refund policies, theatregoers should contact their point of purchase directly.
The Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway production of Bug announced a “$45 snow sale” for all remaining seats for today’s 2 p.m. matinee at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. (MTC’s Off Broadway The Monsters, at New York City Center, Stage II, was offering $39 snow sales for all remaining seats at today’s 2:30 p.m. matinee).
Sidewalk and curbside snow piles, grimy and discolored from car exhaust and pet waste, had just begun to melt away this week a month after New York’s last big winter storm.
The National Weather Service has issued blizzard and winter storm warnings for New York City and surrounding areas, with the worst expected to arrive Sunday evening into Monday. A light, wet snow began falling in the city before noon with little if any accumulation.
The winter storm will strengthen later in the day, with a whopping 12 to 18 inches of snow expected across most of the region throughout the night and early Monday morning hours. Travel in the region is expected to grow increasingly difficult with the heavier snow.
The storm could bring the biggest snowfall to the region since January 2016, when New York City was socked by its worst snowstorm on record. The last blizzard warning was in March 2017. Weather forecasters are warning that conditions are such that the storm could resemble a winter hurricane. The phrase “bomb cyclone” is also being used.
Snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour are likely, with wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph near the coast. Whiteout visibility and widespread power outages due to downed trees and lines are a real possibility.
