Debra Messing: During our first week of rehearsal for Birthday Candles in March, it didn't feel like it was possible for it to come in and wipe everything out. It was just starting to build. It was into the second week, the beginning of that second week, when there was just a very different feeling in the rehearsal room. Lynn Nottage: I got sick that weekend. My daughter was here, and she got very sick, and subsequently, I got it. I don't even know if it was Covid or not, but I had a cough. I didn't want to take any chances if I had Covid and go to the theater and infect the singers. So I didn't go to the last performances of