Tavi Gevinson Instagram – One time @andygrote was talking about the feeling of having accidentally skipped a chunk of text onstage. “Suddenly, I was in the future!” I was delighted to have these words for a sensation I have only ever experienced while doing a play. When you perform it over and over and learn other actors’ rhythms that intimately, and then a scene slows down or speeds up or skips, it feels like time travel! Like someone’s fucking with the fabric of time. Yesterday we learned that Sunday had been our last performance of Assassins, a week before our official closing, due to COVID cases. Suddenly we’re in the future. I am so sad that we don’t get a few more shows nor the closing night goodbye and usual grieving rituals. I am grateful that we got to perform as long as we did, especially after our first rehearsals were halted in March 2020. And for vaccines and boosters that kept us from having worse news in this moment. I am also grateful for our company and crew, @classicstage, our vaccinated & masked audiences, John Doyle for this unbelievable group/production, and for John Weidman & Stephen Sondheim for writing a singular piece of theater about American ideals and nightmares. Such a disturbing play shouldn’t be this fun to perform but such is its genius. Any energy I put into it came back tenfold; I learned so much simply from saying their words and sharing the stage with these talented, generous people. I’ve memorized all their faces and backstage habits. I’m obsessed with them. What will I ever do without the ability to watch their scenes as I please! Plus we all got to share the experience of performing it for Weidman and Sondheim. Thank you for waiting two years to see it, standing in line in the cold, being such rapt audience members. It was the most fulfilled I’ve ever felt by work. I’ll remember it forever. #AssassinsCSC