Get ready for Concerts on the Square in a stadium.

As the weather warms and vaccination rates climb, local public health officials are “cautiously optimistic” that live bands, theater, opera and art fairs will return this summer.

Of course, those events won’t look the same. Shows Madisonians could once attend on a whim in pre-pandemic days may require a ticket to reserve part of a spaced-out grid. Events with tickets, like American Players Theatre or concerts at Breese Stevens Field, won’t sell as many.