Hugh Jackman tests positive for Covid, day after his Tony Awards performance

Sooner or later after performing ‘The Music Man’ on the 2022 Tony Awards ceremony, nominee and Hollywood star Hugh Jackman has introduced that he has examined optimistic for Covid.

“I needed you guys to listen to it from me first that sadly this morning I’ve frustratingly examined optimistic for COVID once more,” Jackman says in a video posted on his Twitter account.

“My unbelievable stand-by, Max Clayton, is gonna go on for me,” Hugh Jackman stated.

On the Tonys, Hugh Jackman carried out ‘Seventy-Six Trombones’ with the forged of the present revival which he leads with Sutton Foster, studies ‘Selection’.

In keeping with ‘Selection’, he was additionally nominated for greatest actor in a musical, which he misplaced to Myles Frost for his efficiency in ‘MJ’, and sat maskless within the entrance row through the ceremony.

In keeping with an e mail despatched to all Tony Award attendees previous to the present, all company of the ceremony have been required to current proof of vaccination and a detrimental PCR Covid check taken inside 48 hours of the beginning of the ceremony. Masks have been optionally available for attendees who sat within the orchestra, and required within the mezzanine in addition to the Radio Metropolis Music Corridor foyer, restrooms and customary rooms.

‘The Music Man’, like many different Broadway productions, requires performers to recurrently check for the virus.

Hugh Jackman beforehand examined optimistic for Covid throughout preview performances of ‘The Music Man’ in December, two months earlier than the present formally opened. Foster additionally examined optimistic days earlier than him, inflicting the present to cancel performances with each stars out.

In his video, Jackman confirmed that performances would proceed with out him within the forged, together with his standby Max Clayton filling in for him.

He praised Clayton’s efficiency, and referred to standbys as ‘The true heroes of Broadway’.

“My unbelievable standby, Max Clayton, is gonna go on for me. Max and I’ve been engaged on this present for over two years, on this half, and I can inform you by being within the room with him and from expertise he’s completely extraordinary,” Jackman stated.

“That is simply one other reminder to me, I’ll say it one million instances over, that the true heroes of Broadways are our standbys, understudies and swings. And by no means has that been extra apparent than it has been prior to now 12 months. They offer that means to the phrase ‘The present should go on’, and it’ll go on.”

The revival of the Meredith Willson musical has been a field workplace success, setting a file for highest week of ticket gross sales for the reason that starting of the Covid pandemic, raking in $3.5 million through the week of March 22.

Along with Jackman‘s greatest actor nomination, the present obtained 5 different nominations on the Tony Awards, profitable none of them.

Whereas speaking in regards to the actor, as per some rumours Hugh Jackman is in talks for becoming a member of the Star Wars franchise which is churning a number of reveals on Disney+. Although it isn’t stated what sequence will probably be and what function the actor will play if the rumours are true.

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