Sharon Wheatley:
Come From Away did a
Good Morning America 3 performance the morning of the shutdown. We were in a holding room there, and [cast member] Petrina Bromley looked around and she s like Guys, what is this wall? And I looked at this black and red wall and thought it was weird. Then we realized it was their Covid war room, where they do their nightly This is what s happening with Covid broadcasts. That was our holding room. But the irony was, there was a sink with no soap or hand towels. I went and found a janitor and told him, and he came back without soap, but gave us some towels.
Debra Messing: During our first week of rehearsal for
Birthday Candles in March, it didn t feel like it was possible for it to come in and wipe everything out. It was just starting to build. It was into the second week, the beginning of that second week, when there was just a very different feeling in the rehearsal room.
Lynn Nottage: I got sick that weekend. My daughter was here, and she got very sick, and subsequently, I got it. I don t even know if it was Covid or not, but I had a cough. I didn t want to take any chances if I had Covid and go to the theater and infect the singers. So I didn t go to the last performances of