Broadway’s Stagehands Struggle to Hold On Until Theaters Revive
- Thousands have given up their careers -- or remain in limbo
- De Blasio wants Great White Way relit in time for fall season
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Jeremy Lane worked on Broadway as a stagehand. During the pandemic, his stage became the back of an ambulance.
Of millions of New Yorkers whose lives have been upended by Covid-19, few are more central to the city’s culture than the workers who arrange scenery and props and run sound and lighting for a theater industry that the Broadway League says brings $15 billion to the city’s economy.