Broadway’s brink of silence: Musicians strike deal hours before curtain call Associated Press Published: October 23, 2025 FILE - A Broadway street sign appears in Times Square, in New York on Jan. 19, 2012 (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

💲Broadway musicians avert strike after last-minute labor deal with producers

💲Tentative three-year agreement includes pay and health benefit increases

💲Union win caps off a week of labor peace after actors’ new contract

The union representing Broadway's musicians reached a tentative labor agreement with commercial producers on Thursday, averting a potentially crippling strike that would have silenced nearly two dozen musicals.

The American Federation of Musicians Local 802 — which represents 1,200 musicians — had threatened to strike if they

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