Performing on Broadway comes with certain rites of passage: first costume fitting, first performance, first backstage birthday cake. But 2020 has brought a new rite of passage: visiting your darkened theatre to clean off your dressing room station with the prospect of your being closed for at least a year. Here to share the story of his experience visiting the Richard Rodgers Theatre is Hamilton’s Preston Mui. He joined the show in late January playing the role of George Eacker and in the show’s lauded ensemble. Here to share the story of his first time back at the Rodgers in three months is Preston Mui.

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