Jasmine Guy bolts play -- at intermission
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Jasmine Guy has withdrawn from the cast of "The Violet Hour" less than two weeks before its Broadway opening, leaving the production during intermission of Thursday night's preview performance.
The 39-year-old actress, who starred in the '80s TV series "A Different World," has left the production for "medical reasons," Jim Byk, a spokesman for the show, said Friday. Byk didn't elaborate.
Guy was replaced for the second act at the Biltmore Theatre by her understudy, Robin Miles, who will assume the role of Jessie Brewster in Richard Greenberg's new play. It opens November 6.
"Unfortunately and to my deepest regret, I need to leave the production at this time," Guy said in a statement. "I leave a piece of my heart on the stage of the Biltmore."
"We understand Jasmine's need to leave the production and wish her all the best," said Lynne Meadow, artistic director of Manhattan Theatre Club, which will operate the Biltmore as its new Broadway home in addition to its two off-Broadway spaces.
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"The Violet Hour" is MTC's inaugural attraction at the Biltmore, a venerable Broadway playhouse that has undergone extensive restoration and renovation, costing upward of $25 million.
The five-character "Violet Hour" has been plagued by other cast changes. Laura Benanti left last month because of "artistic differences," and was replaced by Dagmara Dominczyk.
The play, which also stars Robert Sean Leonard, Scott Foley and Mario Cantone, concerns an ambitious young publisher at the start of his career in 1919. Greenberg won the best-play Tony Award last June for "Take Me Out," the story of a gay baseball superstar who comes out of the closet.
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