Broadway star Sara Chase opened up about her cancer diagnosis and how she is balancing her performance schedule with surgery and treatment. Chase has the BRCA gene and decided to have her fallopian tubes removed preventatively. The surgery was scheduled before she started rehearsals for The Great Gatsby on Broadway. After the surgery she got a call from her doctor that they found cancer and she would have to have another surgery followed by six rounds of chemotherapy. One of her first questions was, "Can I still do Gatsby?"

Chase chose not to disclose except for a few close co-stars, but her medical team was able to schedule the surgery so she didn't have to miss work and no one would realize what was going on. "I don't enter until scene five so I wasn't needed for the first three days of tech rehearsals. So we scheduled the surgery on the first day of tech. I recovered for three days, and on the fourth day I went back to the theater. And no one knew except the stage manager and the assistant costume designer, because I had to explain why I was a little more expanded."

"I wanted to be on Broadway again, and I love this role and I didn't see any reason why I couldn't do both...I took it marker by marker. So, you know, it was like, okay, get through tech, get through the first preview, get to opening, get to the cast recording. And every time I had something else to look forward to."

"I keep saying I'm living my greatest dreams and my nightmare at the same time. I just came from recording the cast album, which was such a high. Then I'm also starting to lose my hair, which is such a weird day."

Hear more of Chase's story here.