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Senator Chuck Schumer Pushes for Federal Aid for Struggling Broadway

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSenator Chuck Schumer broke out his best Broadway quips while urging the federal government to ride to the theater industry’s rescue at a press conference in Times Square on Friday.“The Phantom of COVID has hit Broadway maybe the hardest of all the live event venues in America,” Schumer said, trotting out the first of many references to hit Broadway shows. “Revenues have been and still are totally Frozen.

Thousands of hardworking Guys and Dolls from across this city have been out of work. Today we’re here to fight hard to keep the stages alive, the stories told and the show going on.”As part of an effort to, in Schumer’s words, deliver “a Lion King’s share of federal relief” to Broadway, the.

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