Loft apartments doubled as rehearsal spaces for off-off-Broadway productions

Evidence

That rehearsals were held at Grant’s West Twenty-Sixth Street loft contributed to the “druggy atmosphere” detected by Mari-Claire Charba, one of the all-white chorus of vestal virgins who—having mistaken the Boy for the Son of God, which he in fact turns out to be—entered the theater from the street, walking through the audience holding candles and singing the Mormon children’s hymn “Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 613

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the ‘cheap rent / physical proximity’ test case — artists’ lofts served as the material infrastructure of the scene.
• XREF: Central to reader’s explicit purpose: concrete material conditions (West Twenty-Sixth Street lofts) enabling the density of invention.