When Broadway actor Nick Cordero died at age 41 on July 5 after contracting the coronavirus months earlier, the news reverberated beyond the theater community and captured the world’s attention.
Here was a star on the rise who had already earned a Tony nomination for his work in the musical “Bullets Over Broadway” and had since landed more choice roles—most recently, as the lead in another musical, “A Bronx Tale.” He was also settling into family life, having married Amanda Kloots, a Broadway performer he met when working…