One day after playing The man of music at the 2022 Tony Awards ceremony, candidate Hugh Jackman announced that he tested positive COVID.

“I wanted you to hear before me that unfortunately this morning I was frustratingly tested positive for COVID again.”Says Jackman in a video posted on his Twitter account.

At the Tonys, Jackman sat down no mask in the front row during the ceremony.

Masks and PCR

According to an email sent to all Tony Awards attendees prior to the show, all ceremony guests were required to submit a vaccination test and negative COVID PCR test performed within 48 hours of the ceremony beginning. Variety.

Masks, however, were optional for some of the attendees, depending on where they occupied the Radio Town Hall of Music. The man of musiclike many other Broadway productions, it requires artists to undergo regular tests for the virus.

It’s not the first time Jackman has done these tasks: he had already tested positive during the December introductions, two months before the official opening of the music show.

Tony candidate

The Aussie was nominated for his third Tony Award for his portrayal of the con Harold Hill in the new version of The man of music He said his comeback on the music scene since 2003.

“For me this great show with a cast of 47 artists continue to grow. I’m in a starring role, “he said,” but it’s not as tiring as I’ve experienced in other plays. I think that’s how they built these old shows. I’m a lot on stage and I’ve been running the show for a long time, but it is different: I continue from the beginning, I sing the first number and I go to change my costume. I’m not a smoker, but if I did it would be a perfect break. “

“When I found myself in a position where people were asking me what I wanted to do, I wanted to use that capital for something new. I tried to get some things off the ground that hadn’t happened: a musical of Houdinisome tests for big fish, and I learned how difficult everything was. The Music Man is a great show. It’s beautifully written, well structured and I knew I had to do it. “

the music continues

In a video, Jackman confirmed this due to the covid hiatus, the performances would continue without him in the cast and that his place will be taken by his replacement Max Clayton, replacing it. Jackman praised Clayton’s performance and called the substitutes “The True Heroes of Broadway”.

“my fantastic replacement, Max Clayton, will continue for me. Max and I have been working together for over two years and I can tell you from sharing the stage with him that he is absolutely extraordinary, ”said Jackman.

“This is just another reminder to me, I’ll say it a million times, that the true heroes of Broadway are our replacements. And this has never been more obvious than in the last year. They make sense of the sentence «The show must Keep on’and goes on”.

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