There was no better news for the Broadway community than theaters would reopen.  But, after 18 months in the dark, there was one simple rule: actors, front and back of house staff and audiences must be safe.  Making sure 41 theaters adhered to the protocols was no mean feat.  Everyone who set foot inside would have to prove they’ve been vaccinated.  Every house would have to be cleaned and sanitized.  Two people who had to put together plans to make all of that work are Charlotte St. Martin, President of The Broadway League which oversees all Broadway theaters, and Charles Flateman, executive vice president of the Shubert Organization, the country’s oldest professional theatre company and owners and operators of 17 houses.  They join "In Focus" to talk about the monumental task of making sure that every person who enters every theater is as safe as possible as they bring up the curtain in the middle of a pandemic.  But they speak to a lot more to that: they look back 18 months to the day when Mayor Cuomo announced stringent rules that would prevent large crowds from gathering indoors and St. Martin had to announce that all theaters would close.  They thought it would be for just a few weeks, but both of our guests knew the pain that would be suffered by every one of the 97,000 workers who keep the curtains up.  They’ll also look forward, to an exciting season a year and a half in the making, and how much they’ll have to do to keep the community safe and the doors open.