Tripp Phillips, a production stage manager, had always considered himself fortunate to work steadily on Broadway. Then “Rebecca” entered his life.

By the time that $12 million musical imploded on Sunday, its financing having fallen through, Mr. Phillips had endured two postponements of the show and had turned down work on the musicals “Chaplin” (open now) and “A Christmas Story” (opening next month). Like more than 100 others in the cast and on the “Rebecca” creative team, he is now scrambling for work while watching the convoluted story of what went wrong unfold in public.

“It’s not just the loss of income, it’s not just the uncertainty, it’s the emotional blow — we were all ready to work,” he said in a telephone interview this week. “In the future I will look back at 2012 as the year ‘Rebecca’ let me down.”