Hugh Jackman praises ‘Music Man’ understudy for stepping into lead role last minute

coronavirus surge has been the unheralded performers ready to step into any role in an emergency. Then there’s Carla Stickler, who had actually left show business but returned to rescue “Wicked.”Sticker, who had launched a new career as a software engineer in Chicago three years ago, canceled her winter vacation and returned to New York to star as the green-skinned Elphaba while the cast was ravaged by illness.

The coronavirus pandemic started in late 2019, spreading to the U.S. in early 2020, and as of 2022 it is still affecting Hollywood — and the rest of the world.

2022 is already starting to feel like 2021, which felt a lot like 2020. As if we’re stuck in a neverending loop of awful, it appears the COVID pandemic is already making film festivals scramble thanks to the Omicron variant that is spreading like wildfire around the world.

We got trouble, my friends, right there in New York City. It’s trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with C, and that stands for … Covid. Broadway’s revival of The Music Man has canceled performances through at least January 1 after star Hugh Jackman tested positive for Covid.

Hugh Jackman has said he is suffering "mild symptoms" after testing positive for Covid-19.

Focused on getting better! Hugh Jackman tested positive for COVID-19 just days after his Music Man costar Sutton Foster contracted the virus and had to miss a performance.

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet seen “Don’t Look Up.”At the beginning of Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” Michigan State astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) discovers that a comet is heading toward Earth, and will cause an extinction-level-event for the entire planet in a little over six months: something she duly reports to her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Shout-out to the swings. Hugh Jackman celebrated understudies and swings after Sutton Foster had to miss a performance of The Music Man on Broadway in their first week of previews.

Hugh Jackman‘s production of The Music Man just started performances on Broadway this week and it has unfortunately already been affected by COVID-19.

They won’t be singing “Ya Got Trouble” at the Hugh Jackman Music Man revival. At least, not on the scheduled Christmas Day and Dec. 26 shows, which have been officially cancelled because of Covid-19.

Hugh Jackman is making sure to voice his support for the understudies and swings of Broadway amid a surge in Omicron cases which have resulted in many actors testing positive for COVID-19.

Hugh Jackman is joining the chorus of support for the understudies and swings who have become the heroes of Broadway in recent weeks.

The producers of the highly-anticipated Broadway revival of The Music Man have released the first image from the new production, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster!

have had to close their doors amid the rising COVID cases and surging Omicron variant in New York City.“I’ve just arrived at the theater, and it is our first preview tonight,” he shared in a video on Instagram Monday. “I don’t know how many months — years this date has been in my head, but it feels like a long time.