Broadway Expecting War Woes

“A battered Broadway’s spring season officially begins March 27 with the arrival of Urban Cowboy, a musical based on the John Travolta-Debra Winger movie. And it could also be the start of even more uncertainty for Broadway theater if the war continues into April and beyond… Most in the industry expect some immediate negative impact, just as there was during the 1991 Gulf War. Already, a revival of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which had been struggling at the box office, will fold April 6, after a short, two-month run and a loss of $2.5 million.”