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For this turn to broadway? >> its a great love of my artistic life. its changed everything about my life in every way, shape, and form. >> reporter: "waitress" is just the first course. dozens of plays will open up, the audiences masked and fully vaxed. for the "waitress" community, the pandemic hit home after nick cordero in the original cast died from covid. >> nick was a beloved company member, deeply kind, deeply talented, had a big life here. >> reporter: in honor of him, their pie board no...

Slice of live your life pie >> and that is the song he wrote. and so he lives inside our little show for ever and ever. >> reporter: remembering while reopening as broadways next act. joe fryer, nbc news. >> and we will be singing along. thats "nightly news." thank you so much for watching im tom llamas in for lester for all of us here at nbc news, good night