{"id":12957,"date":"2024-09-15T17:16:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T17:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2024-09-15T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T17:24:16","slug":"on-broadway-a-covid-switcheroo-marsha-mason-in-for-mia-farrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12957","title":{"rendered":"On Broadway, a Covid Switcheroo: Marsha Mason in for Mia Farrow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mason, an associate director of the comedy, which opened on Broadway last week, will step in as Patti LuPone\u2019s counterpart.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, Mia Farrow celebrated opening night of \u201cThe Roommate<\/a>,\u201d the new Broadway play in which she is starring opposite Patti LuPone<\/a>. On Saturday, Farrow was homebound after testing positive for Covid.<\/p>\n

The production canceled both of its scheduled Saturday performances, and on Sunday planned to go forward with Marsha Mason in Farrow\u2019s stead. Mason, best known as an actor, is one of the play\u2019s associate directors and had been working with Farrow on her performance.<\/p>\n

The play\u2019s producers asked Mason to fill in for Farrow, according to the show\u2019s spokesman, Rick Miramontez. Mason will be performing with the show\u2019s script in hand, Miramontez said.<\/p>\n

Farrow, 79, posted on X<\/a> Saturday about her \u201cfirst Covid bout,\u201d but then deleted the post.<\/p>\n

The show has an understudy, Carol Halstead, but apparently opted to go with Mason, who is far better known, and whose own name recognition might help stanch cancellations by ticketholders hoping to see Farrow. In the years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been several previous instances in which directors have stepped in for absent performers on Broadway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Farrow, LuPone, Mason, and the show\u2019s director, Jack O\u2019Brien, all have homes in Western Connecticut and are friendly with one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Roommate<\/a>\u201d is a comedic two-character play, written by Jen Silverman, about what happens when an Iowa City woman takes on a boarder from the Bronx who turns out to have a fondness for fraud.<\/p>\n

The play, capitalized for $5.5 million, is among the first in a string of shows<\/a> this season that are hoping the combination of big name stars and short runs<\/a> will lead to high ticket demand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mason, an associate director of the comedy, which opened on Broadway last week, will step in as Patti LuPone\u2019s counterpart.On Thursday, Mia Farrow celebrated opening night of \u201cThe Roommate,\u201d the new Broadway play in which she is starring opposite Patti LuPone. On Saturday, Farrow was homebound after testing positive for Covid.The production canceled both of its scheduled Saturday performances, and on Sunday planned to go forward with Marsha Mason in Farrow\u2019s stead. Mason, best known as an actor, is one of the play\u2019s associate directors and had been working with Farrow on her performance.The play\u2019s producers asked Mason to fill in for Farrow, according to the show\u2019s spokesman, Rick Miramontez. Mason will be performing with the show\u2019s script in hand, Miramontez said.Farrow, 79, posted on X Saturday about her \u201cfirst Covid bout,\u201d but then deleted the post.The show has an understudy, Carol Halstead, but apparently opted to go with Mason, who is far better known, and whose own name recognition might help stanch cancellations by ticketholders hoping to see Farrow. In the years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been several previous instances in which directors have stepped in for absent performers on Broadway.Farrow, LuPone, Mason, and the show\u2019s director, Jack O\u2019Brien, all have homes in Western Connecticut and are friendly with one another.\u201cThe Roommate\u201d is a comedic two-character play, written by Jen Silverman, about what happens when an Iowa City woman takes on a boarder from the Bronx who turns out to have a fondness for fraud.The play, capitalized for $5.5 million, is among the first in a string of shows this season that are hoping the combination of big name stars and short runs will lead to high ticket demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12959,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12960,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions\/12960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}