Smash!

Lights, camera, action... and timing! When we came out of the Russian vodka bar, the entire street (19th St.) was closed to traffic and in its place, actors, extras, orange cones, ladders, klieg lights, several semi trailers, 'fake' cabbies, a police car (not sure if this was 'real') and of course, gawking pedestrians (like us)

Apparently, Smash is a TV show about creating a hit Broadway musical (I haven't seen it) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash_(TV_series)