Posted: 22:05, 7 April 2022 | Updated: 22:49, 7 April 2022
Sarah Jessica Parker tested positive for COVID-19 a few days after her husband and co-star Matthew Broderick contracted the coronavirus, and the two stars are now forced to leave Plaza Suite on Broadway. “With Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker testing positive for COVID, tonight’s ‘Plaza Suite’ show is being canceled,” the show’s producers told Variety. “The producers apologize for the inconvenience caused to the members of the public. Ticket holders will need to contact their point of sale to reschedule a future show or receive a refund. Feel better: Sarah Jessica Parker tested positive for COVID-19 a few days after her husband and co-star Matthew Broderick caught the coronavirus, and the two stars are now forced to leave the Broadway show Plaza Suite The red carpet is ready: Just 10 days ago, Matthew and SJP were surprised at the premiere of their long-awaited Broadway show The producers added: “Everyone wishes Matthew and Sarah Jessica a speedy recovery.” The show had continued despite Broderick’s absence on Tuesday with a subset, but without any stars now available – playing three pairs in three acts in a hotel suite – the producers had little choice. The First Wives Club star had played against Tony’s award-winning student Matthew Michael McGrath. Their game started with a difficult position after they had to stop for two years due to COVID-19. It was originally scheduled to debut in 2020 after the start of previews in February 2020, but Governor Cuomo closed all Broadway theaters on March 12 and only recently allowed them to reopen. “We are delighted to finally be able to welcome the Broadway audience to the Hudson Theater to see Neil Simon’s New York celebration, New Yorkers and the wonderful ways in which they fall in love. “We just can’t wait,” Broderick and Parker said in a joint statement last month at the premiere. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick appear on the curtain after Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite” on Broadway on Monday, March 28 at the Hudson Theater in New York. The revival of Plaza Suite first began preview performances in February with positive reviews almost four decades after the premiere of the original play at the Plymouth Theater on February 14, 1968. The original play won three nominations for Tony, won the Best Director Award for Mike Nichols’s play, and played 1,097 plays before closing on October 3, 1970. Playbill described the new show: “The real couple Broderick and Parker play three different twins each spending a night at the famous Plaza Hotel: a couple struggling to get married on their 24th anniversary, a couple of high school sweethearts reuniting after many years difference, and the frantic parents of a troubled bride on her wedding day “. The twin cases at Plaza Suite come at a time when coronavirus cases are rising in the city and on Broadway again. The musical A Strange Loop canceled its first preview show after COVID-19 cases were discovered inside the company and the musical Suffs outside Broadway was derailed. Daniel Craig was also sidelined by Macbeth’s revival.
