NEW YORK — Most of Broadway’s theatres reopened their doors Oct. 31, despite limited mass transit to get show-goers from their rain-soaked homes and into their seats, but Carnegie Hall was being haunted by a ghoulish spectre left in Sandy’s wake that prevented it from opening on Halloween, a dangling rooftop crane on the building across the street. City officials restricted access to the venue and cut off power as a safety precaution.
By late Nov. 4, the damaged crane had been swiveled, lashed and secured sufficiently to re-open all but the northern lane of 57th Street. But the combined effects of the storm and crane mishap forced Carnegie Hall to cancel, reschedule or relocate all of its planned performances from Oct. 28 to Nov. 7, including appearances by the Tokyo String Quartet, Jadranka Jovanovic, Idina Menzel, Lang Lang, Andrea Griminelli and the Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, among others.
