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Bug, nan Manhattan Theatre Club’s much-anticipated Broadway accumulation of nan Tracy Letts play starring woman and The White Lotus character Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood, has canceled tonight’s capacity – nan last preview earlier tomorrow’s still-scheduled opening – owed to an unwellness successful nan company.
A rep for nan institution confirmed tonight’s cancellation arsenic good arsenic nan cancelled 2nd enactment of a matinee this afternoon. No connection connected who was taken ill.
The assemblage astatine today’s matinee astatine nan Samuel J. Friedman Theatre was informed astatine intermission that nan capacity would not resume owed to “unforeseen circumstances.” Refunds are expected.
The show has been doing brisk business, pinch nan astir caller container agency figures (for nan Broadway week ending January 4) reporting attendance astatine 96% of nan venue’s capacity. The gross for nan week’s 8 preview performances was $446,806. David Cromer (Prayer For The French Republic, The Band’s Visit) directs.
As of this evening, tomorrow’s starry opening nighttime is officially still on. Expected to be nan 6 p.m arena are Coon’s White Lotus co-stars F. Murray Abraham, Jon Gries and Sam Nivola arsenic good arsenic Ben Ahlers, Lauren Ambrose, Ngozi Anyanwu, Iris Apatow, Dylan Baker, Christine Baranski, Anna Baryshnikov, John Lee Beatty, Teddy Bergman, Jocelyn Bioh, Joshua Boone, Will Brill, Marc Bruni, Juliana Canfield, Michael Chernus, Anna Chlumsky, Margaret Colin, Roberta Collindrez, Michael Creighton, Kelley Curran, Hope Davis, Johanna Day, Brandon Dirden, Maria Dizzia, Jamie Ellington, Edie Falco, James FitzSimmons, Darren Goldstein, Sam Handel, Jessica Hecht, Carl Hopkins, Reuben Santiago Hudson, Toby Kebbell, Sydney Lemmon, Adriane Lenox, Santo Loquasto, Keenan MacWilliam, Andrea Martin, Lakisha May, Arian Moyed, Gregg Mozgala, Annie Parisse, Steven Pasquale, Nancy Piccione, Alison Pill, Phylicia Rashad, Meghan Roche, Jeremy Shamos, Michael Shannon (who starred successful some nan 1996 original Bug accumulation and William Friedkin’s 2006 movie adaptation), Krissy Shields, Cory Michael Smith, Paul Sparks, Morgan Spector, Daniel Sullivan, Rebecca Taichman, James Taylor, Sanaz Toosi, Merritt Wever and David Yazbek.
In summation to Tony and three-time Emmy nominee Coon and Smallwood (Broadway’s Pass Over, TV’s American Rust) nan Bug formed includes Randall Arney, Jennifer Engstrom and Steve Key.
The play by Letts (a Tony and Pulitzer victor for August: Osage County) and produced successful relation pinch Chicago’s Steppenwolf theatre company, follows what nan synopsis calls “an unexpected and aggravated romance betwixt a lonely waitress (Coon) and a mysterious drifter (Smallwood). What originates arsenic a elemental relationship betwixt 2 surgery group successful a seedy Oklahoma motel room twists into thing acold much dangerous. When reality slips retired of grasp, paranoia, delusion, and conspiracy return complete successful this sexy psychological thriller.”
This accumulation of Bug arrives pursuing Steppenwolf’s critically-acclaimed 2021 tally and marks nan play’s Broadway premiere. Bug premiered successful London successful 1996 and Off Broadway successful 2004.
