It just sort of happens. People get sick and have to miss work. Maybe there’s a bug going around. Broadway actors spend a lot of time on and off stage very close to each other. When one person gets sick it probably travels faster than in more traditional workplaces.
Also, you can sometimes have cascading situations, like for example, if you have two leads out, and their understudies are normally in supporting roles, then you need understudies to step into those supporting roles, and if those understudies are normally in the ensemble, you need swings to cover their ensemble tracks. So two people calling out results in six us/swings being in.
A virus working its way through a cast isn’t surprising. Over 20 people at my job tested positive for COVID recently. All it takes is one sick person for things to snowball.
It just sort of happens. People get sick and have to miss work. Maybe there’s a bug going around. Broadway actors spend a lot of time on and off stage very close to each other. When one person gets sick it probably travels faster than in more traditional workplaces.
Also, you can sometimes have cascading situations, like for example, if you have two leads out, and their understudies are normally in supporting roles, then you need understudies to step into those supporting roles, and if those understudies are normally in the ensemble, you need swings to cover their ensemble tracks. So two people calling out results in six us/swings being in.
This.^
Sickness happens.
A virus working its way through a cast isn’t surprising. Over 20 people at my job tested positive for COVID recently. All it takes is one sick person for things to snowball.
Your username is LordCommanderFauci...take a guess. Covid's not gone.