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Megan Thee Stallion will not execute successful either of today’s 2 scheduled Moulin Rouge! The Musical performances, according to nan Broadway production’s website.
A connection reference “Important Information” pops up successful consequence to clicking for summons purchases connected nan site. “The domiciled of Zidler will not beryllium played by Megan Thee Stallion astatine nan April 1st performance” astatine 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., nan connection states.
The rapper-songwriter was rushed to a infirmary past nighttime aft falling sick mid-performance astatine nan Al Hirshfeld Theatre wherever she had made her Broadway debut arsenic nightclub proprietor Zidler past week. A spokesperson for nan show said past nighttime that “Megan started emotion very sick and was promptly transported to a section hospital, wherever her symptoms are presently being evaluated.”
Details of her unwellness person not been disclosed. Deadline has reached retired to a show spokesperson and nan performer’s rep for further accusation and updates. As of Wednesday morning, nan show website does not bespeak that she will beryllium absent from nan Thursday, April 2, evening performance.
Megan Thee Stallion announced successful February that she would statesman a constricted eight-week engagement successful nan domiciled opening connected March 24 and moving done Sunday, May 17. Her debut week proved celebrated pinch audiences, pinch summons income jumping $449,217 complete nan erstwhile week for a full play gross of $1,600,037.
Last night, aft her abrupt exit, Megan Thee Stallion’s friend and hairstylist Kellon Deryck posted connected societal media, “Everyone opportunity a dream for Megan, we are each astatine nan hospital.”
The Zidler character, whose original sanction Harold Zidler was shortened erstwhile Megan Thee Stallion was cast, was portrayed successful nan 2001 movie by Jim Broadbent and has been played connected Broadway by Danny Burstein, Austin Durant, Eric Anderson, Boy George, Tituss Burgess and Bob The Drag Queen, among others.
