Going to a live indoor Second City show felt strange and unnerving — for both the audience and the performers

As the Second City Toronto became the first professional company to resume live indoor performances on Thursday night, I approached its Safer, Shorter & Still So Funny" thinking about the five performers about to premiere the show - to an anxious crowd of 50 people seated eight feet part, their laughs muffled under masks, the performers recoiling if their comedic energy propelled moist globules too far off the stage.