Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn March, Brian Stokes Mitchell was just four days away from performing a concert at New York’s City Center when the pandemic forced theaters to close.
All the other jobs that Mitchell, who won a Tony in 2000 for his performance in “Kiss Me Kate,” had lined up for the year also vanished.
In April, he battled COVID.With the discovery of vaccines, Mitchell can begin to imagine when Broadway reopens. “I’m going to be in a seat in one of those theaters for that first show,” he says.
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