NEW YORK – Meghan Picerno was back at work after 18 months of pandemic limbo, overjoyed to be singing and dancing again with her"Phantom of the Opera" castmates as they rehearsed for the return of Broadway's longest-running show.
Reuters watched as the"Phantom" company prepared for its return. The pandemic left unmistakable marks. For the returning cast, there were tweaks to lyrics and staging to learn, making it more straightforward to cast non-white actors in principal roles. The entire company was required to be vaccinated and twice a week went to get their noses swabbed at a nearby theater lobby repurposed as a temporary coronavirus testing site.In the dark days of 2020, living back in North Carolina with her parents and claiming unemployment benefits, she said she"almost felt like a failure.
"I didn't feel like I had a place in musical theater because I didn't see anyone who looked like me who sung like me," she said."The pandemic was terrible," Kouatchou said."But we wouldn't be able to have conversations like this and change things like this if it hadn't been for the pandemic." Later that week, Kouatchou got her first glimpse of one of the new Christine wigs designed to match her hair texture.On the first full day of stage rehearsals at the Majestic Theatre, members of the company waited to show vaccination proof in an alleyway lined with trash cans leading to the stage door.
Even so, there was worrying news from shows nearby. The Disney musical"Aladdin" was forced to close for two weeks soon after its September reopening because too many actors tested positive for the coronavirus.
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