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Matthew Broderick will not be stepping onstage for the Tuesday, April 5 Broadway performance of “Plaza Suite”.
The “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” star and wife Sarah Jessica Parker are co-starring in the new production of Neil Simon’s classic comedy, but Broderick was forced to bow out when he tested positive for COVID-19.
According to Deadline, Parker tested negative, and will be appearing in the performance.
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“Everyone wishes him a speedy recovery,” producers of the play, which is being staged at the Hudson Theatre, said in a statement.
The statement, however, didn’t indicate when Broderick would be returning to the show.
The new production of “Plaza Suite” was originally scheduled to open in March 2020, but the pandemic forced the opening to postpone; the show officially opened more than two years later, on March 28, 2022.
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just days after her husband and co-star, Matthew Broderick.The Broadway show’s Instagram account announced Thursday afternoon that the night’s performance would be canceled.“Today Sarah Jessica Parker tested positive for COVID with a second test confirming the diagnosis,” the social media statement said of the 57-year-old actress’ diagnosis. “With both Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker positive for COVID, tonight’s performance of ‘Plaza Suite’ is canceled.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are the latest celebs to test positive for COVID-19. The couple's positive diagnosis was revealed on the official Instagram account for their Broadway show, , on Thursday.«Today, Sarah Jessica Parker tested positive for COVID with a second test confirming the diagnosis,» the post began, before announcing that Thursday night's performance of the Neil Simon production would be cancelled.
Sarah Jessica Parker has tested positive for COVID-19.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterBroadway’s “Plaza Suite” has canceled Thursday night’s performance because the show’s lead, Sarah Jessica Parker, has tested positive for COVID-19.The news comes two days after Parker’s husband and “Plaza Suite” co-star Matthew Broderick came down with the virus. Earlier in the week, Parker had tested negative and continued to perform with Broderick’s understudy.
Tonight’s performance of Broadway’s Plaza Suite has been canceled after Sarah Jessica Parker tested positive for Covid today. A second test confirmed the diagnosis.
Matthew Broderick has tested positive for COVID-19.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaOne of the biggest hits on Broadway is down a star. Matthew Broderick will miss an unspecified number of performances of “Plaza Suite” after testing positive for COVID-19. A second test confirmed the diagnosis.
Matthew Broderick wasn't sure what to expect when he signed up to work with his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, who he has been married to since 1997, on a two person Broadway show, and the grueling hours that came with it.MORE: Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick celebrate 23rd wedding anniversary in the sweetest wayThe two first started with their show, Plaza Suite, back in 2020, but production was put to a halt due to the pandemic just a few weeks after they had started. He, like many, thought they would go on break for just a few weeks.Plaza Suite is a comedy play originally written by Neil Simon in 1969, and it follows a wife and husband staying in the same suite they stayed in for their honeymoon 23 years earlier.WATCH: SJP takes viewers behind the scenes on And Just Like That...MORE: Sarah Jessica Parker's $15m New York townhouse is better than Carrie Bradshaw'sNow it's back, and they perform a whopping eight shows a week.The Ferris Bueller's Day Off actor stopped by Live! With Kelly and Ryan to chat with Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest about the Broadway show, and what it's really like working with one's wife, particularly under such an intense schedule.Ryan hilariously started the conversation by saying: "You have a co-star who's a real up and comer, do you have good chemistry?" The couple looked dazzling during the premiere's red carpetKelly then didn't hesitate to ask him what everyone wanted to know: "How do you get away from each other?"MORE: Sarah Jessica Parker asks fans for help following surprising backstage momentMORE: Matthew Broderick responds to Robert Downey Jr's request to reconnect with SJPMatthew's answer was surprising, and even he wasn't expecting it.
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Michael Appler On Monday evening in New York City, “Plaza Suite,” a Neil Simon comedy starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, opened on Broadway with a comedic crash nearly three years in the making.Set in the late-1960s, “Plaza Suite” comprises three one act plays in which Broderick and Parker — married in real life — portray couples staying in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. In the final act — a grand farce in which the pair play parents whose bride-to-be daughter has barricaded herself in the bathroom — Broderick takes a slapstick run at the locked-shut door. On Monday, in front of a star-studded crowd including Mayor Eric Adams, Broderick busted right through the set in an opening night gaff for the Broadway books.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick had three very special guests in attendance during the opening night of their Broadway show, Neil Simon's on Monday. The A-list couple’s children, John, 19, and 12-year-old twins Marion and Tabitha, walked the red carpet for the event held at New York City’s Hudson Theater. For their rare appearance, the Broderick trio walked the carpet together and posed for pictures, sans their parents.