I always thought that I belonged in that theater community, and Broadway was the place to be.

All aboard!

Way down, Hadest Way down under t My name is Beverly Jenkins, and I'm the production stage manager of Hadestown.

Everybody hungry, everybody tired Everybody slavin for the sweat of his brow The stage manager is the person that is left with the job of making sure the show happens, making sure it gets rehearsed.

Way down under the ground I deal with the actors, I deal with the tech crew, I deal with management.

And so it's my job to make sure everyone is informed and the show runs as smoothly as possible.

Who makes the summer sunshine bright?

That's right, Pe The first we really got wind of something happening to Broadway was when we heard that someone over at another theater, one person, had come down with it, and that show had to shut down and stop.

All I know is you're someone I have always known And then the hammer came down, just like, And the governor said we have to shut down for four weeks.

Four weeks went into four months, went into a year and went into 17 months for us.

I'm a workaholic and I don't stop.

I had several children and I never stopped, I had the children and went right back to work.

So this was a forced stopping.

And because that was going to be four weeks.

And then when four weeks went on more and more, you know, you do miss your friends, you do miss the theater.

You know, you miss telling that story.

Show her the way I'm coming, wait for me It was going back home.

I went back home.

It felt good to walk back in the door.

It felt good to sit at my call desk and put my headphones on.

It felt good to flip those buttons and then watch something happen.

Echoing our song I'm coming It seemed like the audience were people who knew what the show was, who desperately needed to see it again, and you could hear it in their yelling, in their applauding every time anything happened.

They were happy and I was happy for it.

Because there's nothing like live theater.

There's nothing like it.

And so to have my family back and to be without them for all this time, it feels good to be home.

I hear the rocks and stones We are Broadway.

I'm coming