Doesn’t it feel impossible that we’re already nearly a month into 2020? Maybe this is how the ’20s will be: fast and furious.

As Kahlil Ashanti ended his first performance of Basic Training, the audience’s reaction wasn’t quite what he had been expecting.

In a New Yorker profile published soon after the Public Theater’s premiere of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda discussed early theatrical influences, including Les Miserables, Cats and Phantom of the Opera. Of the latter, he said, “I saw Phantom and I was like, ‘Oh, shit!’ Because it’s about an ugly songwriter who wants to impose his will on the world. I related to that.”

Bust out your snowshoes, your cross-country skis, your dog parkas — whatever you need to make it through winter, because the snowy season is officially here.