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Being in New York City during the pandemic, it was a town I didn't recognize, scary at
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times and isolating and lonely. With theater, everything is based on our working
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So a lot of people ran out of insurance because they didn't have work week
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So you start looking at everything else is like if I get sick and I don't have insurance
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and I don't really have a job, what are we all going to do
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This is having a devastating impact for actors, producers, stagehands and theater workers
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which impacts nearly 100,000 workers. Think about the external economy, the restaurants and the hotels
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I mean, that's nearly a $15 billion industry. We're still calculating the loss that's going to happen
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I can't tell you how many people left the theater to pay the rent and are not coming back
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So that's like a story that's still being written and I'm terrified about it
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When the shutdown happened, I literally had to figure out where I was going to go back to
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I had gone back to Toronto and I wasn't interested in music really
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I had no desire to sing, create anything. It was rough
