Mr. Cohl first canceled Wednesday's matinee (one of the most lucrative of the year, given the Christmas week tourist market) to spend time on the safety measures and to prepare other actors to step in for Mr. Tierney, who performed some of the most complex stunts in the show.
Six days a week, tourist madness consumes the prosperous, leafy and bourgeois suburb of Versailles, political capital and seat of the royal court from 1682 until 1789, when Revolutionary mobs massacred the palace guard and dragged Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette back to Paris to eventually have them beheaded.
In the last few weeks, tourists all but disappeared.
As the markets staged a dramatic show in recent weeks, tourists congregated at the symbolic center of the financial universe, Wall Street, to gaze at and take pictures of its famous landmarks.
Five-star hotels were closed for weeks, tourists terrified, and several businesses intending to invest in Thailand decided against it.
Easter typically marks one of Broadway's biggest weeks: tourists flock, and fans emerge after a long winter to see all the new shows vying for Tony Awards.
Visas can be obtained in Bangkok, where the Laotian Embassy usually processes a two-week tourist visa in two business days for $25.
Toward the end of February, with three weeks to go before the voting, I flew into Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city and the capital of Matabeleland, and was given a two-week tourist visa.
This is the region where most one-week tourist itineraries finish up due to its proximity to the capital, but two new trekking routes through Phrumsengla National Park will open in January, for those in search of somewhere even more isolated.
When the week began, tourists had finally retreated to tourist repositories around the world, making room in New York for the rain.
