Since 1988, the North Lenoir High School Drama Department has produced professional quality musical theatre performances, 66 to be exact, bringing light and life to the stage each fall and spring. With the onset of COVID-19, for the first time in over thirty years and in the middle of production for the 2020 spring musical, seats remained empty, piano keys grew dusty, and students’ voices no longer echoed against auditorium walls. The light had gone out.