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SEASON

Preview

The Fall & Holiday Season: The show must go on. Event organizers and show
Outdoor Events Abound producers, meanwhile, have focused their future entertainment
It was supposed to be a season of triumph, one that welcomed schedules on returning to some level of normal. They have
all of Fort Lauderdale and South Florida to rediscover our been booking performers and shows and organizing events
wonderful world of entertainment and special events for the fall and winter at a healthy clip, hoping that patrons
celebration, with a level of performances and events not seen follow suit by reviving their ticket purchases and putting on
since early in 2020, when the world shut down in pure their walking shoes for the coming season. Early summer
pandemic panic. The fall and winter season of 2021 and ticket sales exceeded their expectations. More recently,
2022 should certainly make up for much of our collective however, with the renewed surge in COVID due to the Delta
suffering and angst, right?
variant, many potential ticket buyers have shifted into wait-
and-see mode. Consumers may yearn to return to a full and
Not so fast. The COVID-19 pandemic and its more
normal life, but the drumbeat of scary COVID news has some
infectious Delta variant have had other ideas, despite a
of them thinking twice.
vaccination rate that surpassed 55 percent of the Broward
population and includes more than a million Broward County What to do? Proceed with caution. Like so much of
residents, not to mention even higher levels of vaccinated pandemic life, a cautious approach is warranted. A shot or
residents in eastern Fort Lauderdale, where people have two in your arm, and perhaps a booster shot, is your best
worked hard to avoid catching the virus and infecting others. ticket to a season of exciting entertainment experiences. For
The past few months have seen record numbers of COVID the latest information about vaccinations and where to find
infections and hospitalizations, largely due to virus mutations them, check out the “Find Vaccines” tab at
attacking the unvaccinated among us. www.vaccines.gov.

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