Actor/singer and Worcester native Lucia Giannetta's first large-scale theater production since the pandemic is a "Herculean" affair. She's in the cast of the new Disney musical "Hercules" at the famous Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey.

As fate would have it in a good way, there might be something positive and new coming out of the pandemic experience with regard to theater. "Post-COVID, theater is a little different for me in my experience. You really feel the movement of theater. You feel it growing and expanding," Giannetta said.