Kathy Voytko: Last News

Hugh Jackman‘s production of The Music Man just started performances on Broadway this week and it has unfortunately already been affected by COVID-19.

Shout-out to the swings. Hugh Jackman celebrated understudies and swings after Sutton Foster had to miss a performance of The Music Man on Broadway in their first week of previews.

Sutton Foster on Friday said she tested positive for COVID-19, which led her to sit out Thursday's preview show of The Music Man on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater.The 46-year-old performer took to her Instagram Stories to detail the situation and laud her understudy Kathy Voytko for taking her place as Marian Paroo in the production.'Yesterday I tested positive for COVID,' the two-time Tony Award winner said. 'At noon Kathy Voytko found out.

Sutton Foster missed the fourth-ever performance of Broadway’s The Music Man revival last night and she has revealed that she tested positive for COVID-19.

“The Music Man” swung into high gear last Thursday thanks to one “swing actor.”Two-time Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman took a few moments out of Thursday’s preview to thank his co-star for the evening, and got a little “emotional” while doing so.Jackman, 53, plays charming con artist Harold Hill in Meredith Wilson’s ragtime musical, opposite Sutton Foster, 46, as do-gooder piano teacher Marian.But when Foster, 46, became suddenly unavailable for the show’s fourth preview, understudy Kathy Voytko stepped up with fewer than eight hours notice, Jackman revealed during a post-show speech in which he thanked many of the show’s swing actors.Swing actors may learn half-a-dozen or more roles so that they can substitute at a moment’s notice.