Ray Sierra, 38, assistant director at the plant, said that yesterday was “frustrating.Looking for Toshiba Satellite U845W-S410P - 14.4 - Core i5 3317U - Windows 7 Professional 64-bit - 6 GB RAM. “We would offer one Playbill per couple and if someone wanted more than that, we would mail it to them,” he said.įortunately, Playbill editor Blake Ross said last night, “It didn’t come to that.”ĭeliveries were made yesterday before the curtains went up at “Mary Poppins,” “Mamma Mia,” “Promises Promises,” “Wicked” and “Billy Elliot,” the magazine said, as well as shows playing at the State Theater, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and City Center. Theaters do have an emergency contingency plan in the event there are not enough Playbills, said Hal Goldberg, vice president of theater operations for Jujamcyn Theaters. Yesterday, Cusanelli’s crews carried bundles of Playbills for theaters in most dire need of restocking onto an emergency truck parked a couple of blocks away. “We laughed at that command center? What, are you kidding me?” he said. “I don’t know how they could get so many buses stuck in one spot,” Matthews said, noting one of the stranded vehicles was being used as a makeshift command center. Pressman John Matthews, 42, said the scene was comical. “Three of them are right in front of my place and no one has done anything about it all for two days.” “These buses have been everywhere - within a three-block radius there are 10 of them,” he said. The industrial blocks of Woodside seemed to be among the hardest hit and most ignored in the city, he said. “This is embarrassing for the greatest city in the world.” “I’m standing out front just waiting for something to happen,” he said. The response to the snowstorm scene seemed scripted by Samuel Beckett and not Mayor Bloomberg, said Cusanelli, who added he felt helpless much of the day. More than 100,000 Playbill copies fresh off the presses sat in the 61st Street building for shows such as “Wicked,” “Jersey Boys” and “Merchant of Venice.” “They say the show must go on - unfortunately it’s going on without Playbill,” he said. “These theater people are tough and can’t understand why we might not be able to deliver,” he said yesterday afternoon while the buses still hadn’t been removed. Lincoln Center ran out of Playbills for “The Nutcracker” and the opera Monday night, although names and addresses were taken down to send copies to those who insisted, Robert Cusanelli, the magazine’s director of manufacturing, told The Post. For 126 years Playbill has been even more reliable than the post office, delivering its magazine to city theaters in rain, snow and even blackouts.īut when several MTA buses got stranded outside the magazine’s Woodside, Queens, printing plant during Sunday’s blizzard, the programs could not be delivered Monday and thousands of theatergoers were left empty-handed.
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