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Terrence McNally loomed large through ups, downs on Broadway

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The coronavirus continues to devastate Broadway. Two highly anticipated plays — “Hangmen” and the revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — have been scuttled.

Actors are sick, among them much of the cast of “Moulin Rouge!” The day Broadway announced it was closing down, a bunch of top producers and theater executives met at a popular theater bar to drown their sorrows.

One of them had a cough. Now many of them have the virus. But the most shattering news of all was the death this week of Terrence McNally, at 81, from complications of the coronavirus.

The four-time Tony Award-winning playwright was like the theater itself: resilient, nimble, a little jaded, delightfully bitchy on occasion, and still in love with an opening night.

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