(The Deadline Team’s post appeared 8/26 on Deadline Hollywood.)
All of Broadway will go dark Saturday and Sunday as Hurricane Irene approaches the East Coast and New York braces for winds, rain and potential flooding during the weekend. It will be the biggest emergency shutdown of the Great White Way since Sept. 11, 2001, and already the city has ordered mandatory evacuations in low-lying areas and will shut down the transit system by noon ET Saturday.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/broadway-to-shutter-as-irene-approaches/