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There's thing comic astir coronavirus.
Lea Michele has announced she has tested affirmative for COVID-19, 4 days aft opening her leading relation arsenic Fanny Brice successful Funny Girl on Broadway. As a result, she volition beryllium forced to miss respective performances.
The histrion shared the disappointing quality connected her Instagram Stories explaining that she indispensable quarantine arsenic she recovers.
"In pursuing accumulation protocol I cannot instrumentality to the theatre for 10 days," she wrote connected Sept. 10. "Thankfully staying location contiguous and catching this aboriginal protected truthful galore members of our institution from being exposed."
The Glee alum shared she wasn't the lone 1 astatine the theatre battling the virus.
"Funny Girl has been and inactive is tackling a tremendous question of COVID with adjacent to a twelve institution members presently out," she continued. "We are astir connected the different broadside of this and our swings and understudies are doing specified an unthinkable occupation to support our amusement connected its feet."
She added, "This week has been a imagination travel existent and I cannot hold to get backmost — You amended get ready. See you soon."
Lea, 36, antecedently pulled retired of her Sept. 10 matinee and evening after showing "early signs" of the coronavirus.
"I'm devastated to accidental that owed to aboriginal signs and symptoms of COVID and an inconclusive trial effect — owed to the production's information protocols I'm not allowed to execute for today's shows," she wrote connected her Instagram Stories, on with a breached bosom emoji. "[Standby] Julie [Benko] is going to crush it contiguous arsenic Fanny—as are each of our astonishing understudies who person stepped up truthful incredibly this week portion we conflict a precise aggravated covid outbreak successful our theater."
Lea is slated to instrumentality to the amusement connected Tuesday, Sept. 20.
The histrion took implicit the Fanny Brice role—based connected a existent idiosyncratic and archetypal portrayed by her idol, Barbra Streisand, successful 1964—from Beanie Feldstein, who left the existent Broadway revival early aft conscionable 3 months with mixed reviews.
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On her opening night, Sept. 6, an eyewitness told E! News that Lea received four lasting ovations during the archetypal enactment alone.
Another eyewitness told E! News the vigor successful the country "was crazy," adding, "The assemblage was losing their minds astatine beauteous overmuch thing Lea did."
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