“We closed before we opened.” Ormeny says. “It’s the first time in 50 years for me that I haven’t opened the show. The set was up, we were going into dress rehearsals, we were ready to go. All of the sudden the rug was pulled out from under us.”
“Maybe it sounds a little Pollyannish,” Sandee says, “but our approach is that in these challenges – and sometimes they're kind of overwhelming – we are always looking for where the gift in it is.”
"We have disagreements, but we almost always end up being on the same page,” said Geoff. “We’ve always been able to [co-direct], because we simply think in the same way."
“At the age of 16,” Michel says, “I knew right away that I wanted to work as an actress on stage and then that was it. I was in love with the theater and will always be in love with the theater, and right now I am suffering, because I am not working in the theater.”
“We generally know what’s going to set each other off so we really try not to get stuck in each other’s territory,” Melville explains. Furthermore, says Chalsma, “We are blessed with amazingly calm, go-with-the-flow kids [an 18-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son]. They are doing okay through all this, fortunately. They share a love of Saturday Night Live sketches, so we watch a lot of those!”
"Diane loved living large. She loved being the bridge, the connector. She loved people to thrive. She loved to support artists. She loved to have a great laugh."
“How do we stay together?” Jack muses. “How do these couples . . . longevity? When it gets so bad, the other person is not as bad off as you, and they can hold the fort while you can’t.”
"We’re flying blind here, enacting severe, cautionary policies in a void of data. And the lock-down policy itself may exacerbate the crisis – school closures in which kids return to, and infect, their grandparents."
