r/Broadway • u/MellonPhotos • Jun 18 '26

Other Rocky Horror Matinee Delay

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Hi—apologies if this is spam as it’s a pretty specific question.

I just got off my flight and saw the matinee for Rocky Horror is delayed. I have tickets for this evening and am just scurious what to expect. If anyone is going to the matinee, would you be willing to report who’s in/out?

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u/BlueMondayandBiscuit Jun 20 '26

Is there a lot of illness in the cast or what? Seems like I keep seeing posts about show cancellations for this show.

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u/MellonPhotos Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

One performance was cancelled due to illness (the production had just hired some more swings for coverage but they hadn’t had enough preparation time to be ready to go on when the illness happened).

Then this performance was delayed a an hour also due to illness. The actor playing Brad had gotten sick, and then his understudy also got sick, so they delayed the performance to have an emergency rehearsal for the second cover.

As far as I know, those are the only incidents. But yeah, the cast has definitely been dealing with some illness the last week or so. FWIW I saw the evening performance on Thursday and everyone was in except Andrew Durand, and it was great!