What About A Live Taping Of SNL, The Daily Show Or Even Letterman?

Lady, if you can’t figure out something else to do in this town . . . really:

As if the Grinch really had stolen Christmas, children cried and parents were crestfallen. Confusion, surprise and anger played at box offices, and dispossessed theatergoers shared the sidewalks with grim pickets yesterday as the stagehands’ strike shut down most of Broadway’s plays and musicals.

Up and down the Great White Way, and in the side streets where Broadway’s theaters are clustered, marquees fell dark and the electric playland of Times Square — normally pulsing with anticipation for Saturday matinees — was a canyon of gloom in Midtown Manhattan’s petrified forest.

Crowds of American and foreign tourists, busloads from suburbia, throngs who had come by train or cab with children or grandchildren were caught off guard by the walkout and abruptly drawn into chaos: scrambling for refunds, seeking tickets to the few shows that remained open and looking for other attractions to ease the disappointment.

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“It’s very disappointing,” said Linda Partner of Port Royal, Pa., who rode four hours on a bus with her three sisters and their two children to see “The Little Mermaid” at the Lunt-Fontanne at Broadway and 46th Street. “We don’t have a clue where to go or what to do.”