Wuhan. Bergamo. Seattle. New Rochelle. By the time cast, crew and fans assembled on March 9 for the first preview of a new musical version of " Mrs. Doubtfire ," the coronavirus was at the stage door. All over Broadway, theater operators were installing hand sanitizer dispensers and scrubbing armrests. Ticket holders were beginning to bail. "Hadestown" barred stage-door greetings . An usher who worked at "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Six" tested positive for Covid-19 . And "Moulin Rouge!" canceled a day's performances because a company member was feverish. "Mrs. Doubtfire" got through three performances before Broadway shut down. "Our house manager texted us and told us to hold on, and then she said, 'Don't come, don't come, don't come'," recalled Lisa Berger, a "Doubtfire" usher. "It wasn't a total surprise, to be honest. I just didn't think it was going to happen that quickly." Now two months have gone by, and almost everyone associated with the production — about 150 people — is out of work: actors and musicians, obviously, but also bartenders and box office workers, carpenters and choreographers, designers and dressers, programmers and propmasters. A few vendors — the publicists, for example — were furloughed… Read full this story
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