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Leading Off: Lincoln’s entertainment venues doing what they can to stay afloat

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Leading Off: Lincoln’s entertainment venues doing what they can to stay afloat

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Be More Chill

Just months before the pandemic shut down everything, the Lincoln Community Playhouse presented “Be More Chill,” which starred Alex Rowand (left) and Austin T. Rousseau. The Playhouse is open again with mandates requiring either a proof of vaccine or a recent negative COVID-19 test.




An older woman walked to the ticket booth of the Lincoln Community Playhouse last month, wanting a pass to see “The Fantasticks.”

Not a problem, said Morrie Enders, the Playhouse’s executive director, who then informed her she was going to have show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or a negative virus test.

“Really?” she said. “Why?”



Morrie Enders

Enders




The average person would have looked for the hidden camera. Instead, he remained courteous as she looked straight-faced at Enders while waiting for an answer.

As if he needed to explain any of this — the shutdown,  the 15-month exodus from socializing, the take-out orders from restaurants, the vaccinations, the reopening of America and then that damn delta variant, which has seemingly thrown us back to square one — to anyone.


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“We’ve been closed for the last 18 months,” he said.

Apparently, some people really have been living under rocks for the last 20 months.

“We are doing this kind of thing so that we can stay open and do plays while it’s still bad out there in the world,” Enders told her.

She than said she wouldn’t be showing any proof of vaccination, adding that such things are an infringement on her personal freedoms.

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