{"id":1156810,"date":"2021-12-26T08:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1156810"},"modified":"2021-12-26T08:50:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T13:50:19","slug":"broadways-the-music-man-starring-hugh-jackman-canceled-amid-nyc-covid-19-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/broadways-the-music-man-starring-hugh-jackman-canceled-amid-nyc-covid-19-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway\u2019s \u2018The Music Man\u2019 Starring Hugh Jackman Canceled amid NYC COVID-19 Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbroadways-the-music-man-starring-hugh-jackman-canceled-amid-nyc-covid-19-surge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1156810&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TheGreatestShowmanTrailerHughJackman.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">(UPI) \u2014 Weekend performances of Broadway\u2019s The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, have been canceled as the number of COVID-19 cases rise in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur company would have loved nothing more than to celebrate the holiday with the audience and their families, but the priority is the health and wellness of the cast, crew, and audience,\u201d the show\u2019s Twitter feed said Friday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0E0IJo1XKy\">pic.twitter.com\/0E0IJo1XKy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Music Man on Broadway (@MusicManBway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MusicManBway\/status\/1474480402777751559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe evening performance on Saturday, December 25 and matinee performance on Sunday, December 26 of Broadway\u2019s The Music Man have been canceled due to breakthrough COVID-19 cases. All tickets for the canceled shows will be refunded at the point of purchase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deadline.com said Foster tested positive for COVID-19 and had to drop out of Thursday\u2019s and Friday\u2019s performances. The shows went on with an understudy playing Foster\u2019s role.<\/p>\n<p>Audiences, crews and performers for all Broadway productions are required to be vaccinated for the coronavirus, but breakthrough cases have caused The Lion King, Aladdin, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Aladdin and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to cancel performances in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shout out \u2013 not only to the cast and crew of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MusicManBway?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MusicManBway<\/a> but to the ENTIRE Broadway community. We\u2019re all in this together. Healthy and happy holidays. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3RCsqz2aW0\">pic.twitter.com\/3RCsqz2aW0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealHughJackman\/status\/1474358155958173700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a video he posted on Twitter, Jackman praised the understudies and swing performers who keep productions going when the regular stars are out.<\/p>\n<p>The Jagged Little Pill, Waitress and Thoughts of a Colored Man have permanently closed as a result of the surge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(UPI) \u2014 Weekend performances of Broadway\u2019s The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, have been canceled as the number of COVID-19 cases rise in New York City. \u201cOur &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}