Entertainment

Hadestown Indefinite Run Holds

TL;DR

This paper has been printing Hadestown's indefinite run as holding; Saturday has no closing notice.

MSM Perspective

Saturday has no Hadestown closing date in fetched copy.

X Perspective

Feeds treat silence as a closing.

This paper has been printing Hadestown's indefinite run as holding. [1] Saturday has no closing notice in fetched copy. Holding is not closed. A quiet Broadway desk is not a last performance. Print holding. Do not print closed. Leave a named close to the edition that owns a close.

No Saturday shutter notice is in Broadway copy, so holding remains the run and silence is not a last performance.
A holding run is still holding. Saturday recap that treats a quiet marquee as a closing is a feed, not a last night.
No last-performance date is in Saturday's Broadway stack.
A missing closing notice is filed as missing, not imagined.
Saturday is not a last night.

Unannounced runs run; Saturday's runs.
The Walter Kerr's open-ended listing is the strongest signal in theatre: no closing date means no closing planned. Runs end by announcement with months of farewells. Saturday brings neither.

Neither announcements nor farewells; Saturday brings neither. Bringing neither is the update. Runs continue.

Continuing runs continue; Saturday brings no farewell. Walter Kerr listings stay open-ended. Closings come with months of notice.

Saturday brings no farewell. Walter Kerr listings stay open-ended. Closings come with months of notice.

Hadestown is still on the Walter Kerr board with no last-night date attached. Saturday's Broadway stack named no farewell month. Producers end indefinite runs by announcing them. A quiet marquee is not a closing notice.
Saturday's Broadway stack named no farewell month. Producers end indefinite runs by announcing them. No last-night date is attached.

Saturday's Broadway stack named no farewell month. Producers end indefinite runs by announcing them. No last-night date is attached.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles

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