The Paramount in Huntington is ready to welcome back a live audience.

The theater is once again hosting concerts, with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons performing the venue's first show Thursday night. It was the first show at the venue since March 2020.

Fans say it was the moment they were waiting for. The legendary singer played in front of a full capacity crowd.

"He's back and we're local," says one fan. "So, this is wonderful."

The Paramount currently has no vaccine requirement in place.

Dr. Salvatore Pardo, an ER physician with Northwell Health, says hospitalizations are going up day-by-day so attending a show is a definite risk.

"If it was up to me, I'd say everybody needs to be vaccinated in order to attend," says Pardo. I do think the delta variant is making a surge."

Paramount spokesperson Adam Ellis says masks are required for those who are not vaccinated and encouraged for everyone else. Enforcement of that rule is on the honor system.

Every artist is going to have their own requirements and we’re going to take it on a show-by-show basis every day because it’s changing every day," says Ellis.

Shows at the Paramount will be mostly on the weekends for the next two months. The band Limp Bizkit was supposed to play in a few days but that got postponed. The next performance will be SNL alumnus and Valley Stream native Jim Breuer.