Rabe tried to laugh it off but within hours, she found
it hard to breathe and she had a pain in her side.
Staff at the Laura Pels Theatre sent her to the
hospital where doctors told her she had a fractured
rib.
"I was devastated," she says. "There were some tears.
It's not like we're doing 'Phantom of the Opera.' You
just don't expect the set to come crashing down on
you."
She was laid out for over a week, while her
understudy, Jessica Cummings, found herself on an
unexpected path to a leading role in the Roundabout
Theatre Company production, which officially opened in
February and runs through mid-April.