I’m somewhat of a germophobe, and I just knew if that water would be sitting in the Keurig for a month I would just have to throw the whole Keurig away and get a new one, and I didn’t want to do that because I’d just bought it. Rashidra Scott ( Susan) I wanted to get back into my dressing room and dump the water out of the Keurig. It felt, I don’t know, disrespectful or something, you know? I don’t know how else to say it. Our cast would do these Zoom calls and to be perfectly honest, I stopped turning on my camera because it was so nice and sunny where I was, and my backyard was just lovely.
And it became really sad to see New York City on social media, boarded up and shut down and so cold and everyone holed up in their small apartments. I got to Palm Springs and it was sunny, beautiful and warm. “Am I going to get stuck in Nebraska?” I just wanted to get home. I made it in two and a half days because I was afraid to stop, afraid they were going to close state borders. I had two of my dogs with me and couldn’t get on an airplane with two dogs, so I had to drive back to my house in Palm Springs. So I just left the apartment the day we shut down. Kyle Dean Massey ( plays Theo, renamed from the original Kathy) I was renting an apartment in New York, and paying extra to do a seven-month lease. “How could anyone feel shame doing whatever you need to do to get by? Our industry doesn’t exist anymore” Here, they share their stories with candor, humor, insight and focus, essential tools for this unprecedented year on Broadway and off.Īll interviews were conducted separately and have been edited and condensed for length and clarity. In Part 2, Company‘s Patti LuPone, Katrina Lenk, Bobby Conte Thornton, Matt Doyle, Christopher Fitzgerald, Christopher Sieber, Jennifer Simard, Terence Archie, Etai Benson, Nikki Renée Daniels, Claybourne Elder, Greg Hildreth, Kyle Dean Massey and Rashidra Scott share what happened next, when isolation set in, bank accounts started to shrivel and losses of all sorts began to mount. Last week, in the first installment of Deadline’s oral history of Company, the 14 principal cast members recalled those early days, how it felt to have the show of your dreams and the chance of a lifetime snatched away overnight. Greg Hildreth, cast as Peter in the much-anticipated Broadway revival of the beloved Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Company, remembers it this way: “Every time the Broadway League announced an extension of the shutdown, it felt like you’d just proposed marriage to somebody and she said, ‘Yes, I’ll marry you. Broadway's 'Company' One Year After Covid Shutdown: Cast Chronicles A 12-Month Pause In Being Alive - An Oral History
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