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away from the first apartment I ever had in New York) in this loft - one of those classic 80s lofts with art on the wall. It was right out of films like Fatal Attraction or Wall Street. We’re up on the 5th floor and looking down at these bay windows and there’s nobody on the streets. Nobody. I mean to see New York like that on a beautiful Sunday afternoon was completely strange. So they did their weekend and were going to shoot the next weekend and then the world shut down. They’re sitting there with half of their movie made. This is a movie where the director and lead actress had just poured their heart and their minds into and now it’s sitting for months. If the schedule had just been moved up a week they could be sitting there working on editing the movie, but just for two days work they’re going to be waiting months. It would have killed us. If this had happened to our production, I don’t know if it could have survived because it was already spread out over 5 months. Watch“The Dark Stretches” an early demo by The Incoherents NJ STAGE - ISSUE 71 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 21