It is of course one of the main things you do as a tourist when you come to New York City.

You book tickets to Broadway to go see a show.

Well, as of tonight, that will not be possible for about a month.

You may remember back on March 12th, all Broadway theaters were ordered to close.

For a lot of people, it was the first time they really started paying attention to this pandemic.

And as we now know, that shutdown would last much longer than one month.

The day before that shutdown, Broadway performer Jessica Rush was on stage in Tina, the Tina Turner musical.

And I didn't know for sure that it would be the last time, but it definitely felt like that in my soul.

And I remember coming out for the megamex in the curtain call and we're doing, you know, we're singing Proud Mary and we're doing Rollin' on the River and we're dancing and flinging our bodies around.

And I look out at the audience and I can see, you know, 1700 people are on their feet.

They're singing, you know, Rollin' Rollin', you know, we're all rolling on the River together.

I just thought I have to remember this moment.

I have to remember what this feels like, what it looks like to look out into the audience and see the pure joy on all these faces and a sold out crowd.

You know, there's nothing like it, there is nothing like an appreciative awesome audience.

After the theaters closed, Jessica and her six-year-old daughter left New York City and they moved to Southern California to be with her husband who was also an actor and was performing in a show over there.

Jessica and her husband have been performing on an off-roadway for most of their adult lives, so being off-stage and out of work has been a challenge.

You know, there were a lot of actors and artists in our community who immediately started creating, you know, concerts and things in their house and putting stuff online.

And both of us just sort of withdrew because it felt like we were in mourning and I do believe we were. I mean, our industry evaporated overnight.

It's still unclear when theaters may be able to safely reopen and without the ability to work, Jessica and her family have started dipping into their savings to try and get by.

They've done things like starting a bracelet-making business called Ivy and Clark.

Let's get out our highlight and our rose quartz and our amethyst.

Wait, what's highlight?

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