When Gracie Abrams was deep in the grip of high school theatre, her favourite part of the experience was tech week, the gruelling time during which every lighting and sound cue is perfected. “Every memory that I have of school that matters to me was theatre,” she tells me, especially the notion of “working on a group project together. It makes sense that I love touring, because it’s that same kind of circus.”
If you multiplied tech week by 1 million, you might…

