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With 13 Cast Members Out, A Beautiful Noise Associate Director Austin Regan Stepped Into the Show (playbill.com)
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The company of Broadway's A Beautiful Noise has had quite an eventful week last week. September 14 saw star Will Swenson, who was out on a scheduled break, having to journey back to the city after his standby, Nick Fradiani, took ill (alongside multiple other company members).

Then on September 17, 13 different cast members had to call out of the production. Such a large number of absences led to the productions associate director, Austin Regan, making his Broadway performance debut as Fred Weintraub/Tommy O'Rourke.

On social media, the company of A Beautiful Noise has openly acknowledged the continued worldly presence of COVID-19 and its impact on the show. The production's swing and co-dance captain Robert Pendilla shared the production's September 17 call board on social media, to memorialize the feat carried out by the swath of understudies and swings that performed at the matinee

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure how much of this is a real trend and how much of it is just me pattern-matching, but everyone I know has also been getting sick. And exactly 1/5 of the actors in the show I’m doing now got COVID (although thankfully they got better by tech week).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just because Covid has receded as a threat in most people's minds (including my own), doesn't mean it's still not out there. New variants like EG.5 and BA.2.86, against which the current crop of boosters are less effective, are circulating. That said, it's probably a mix of column A and column B.