What It Actually Takes to Run a Broadway Show Every Night | WSJ

• Whenever there's been war, famine, economic downturns, Broadway has been a place for people to come and to put their fears aside and sit there and be entertained. It's part of our national character. - It's a very New York feeling when you're leading up to that time when a Broadway show is happening, there's more cabs, there's more restaurants bustling, there's all of these people lining up outside every Broadway theater.- When you hear that crowd and that murmur going out there, the musicians feel it, th ...