The production was able to utilize an empty theater because of the statewide closure of businesses in New Mexico due to Covid-19. Fearful of production being shutdown by authorities, they devised a ploy to make it appear that contractors were working in the theater by setting paint and supplies outside the front door as a way to explain the activity at the theater. Periodically, someone on the crew would go outside and move things around to make them appear to be in use. Police cruised the front of the building almost daily but never had any suspicion to the ruse.