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Broadway's Nick Cordero Emerges From Coma During Battle With COVID-19

The performer had been in a medically induced coma for weeks, and doctors also had to amputate his right leg. Still, this week his wife said she received "just the best news you could hear."
Nick Cordero, here in January on opening night of <em>Rock of Ages</em> in Hollywood, has emerged from a coma during a difficult fight with COVID-19, according to his wife.

Happy stories have been hard to come by during the coronavirus pandemic — particularly on Broadway, which shuttered stages and won't reopen until Labor Day . This week, however, brought a rare,

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