NEW YORK — Patti LuPone won’t be lunching for the foreseeable future.
The Broadway icon announced Sunday that she has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss more than a week of shows of “Company” on the Broadway stage.
“Hi Dolls. I showed up for Saturday’s matinee, tested positive for Covid with 3 tests,” the 72-year-old singer tweeted. “Unfortunately, I’ll be out of the show for 10 days. I’m so sorry.”
A spokesman for the production told the Daily News that “increased testing protocols” went into place at the Jacobs Theatre in response.
“She is home resting, and everyone wishes her a speedy recovery,” the show said in a statement.
“Company,” which was scheduled to premiere in 2020 before the pandemic shut down Broadway, opened on Jan. 9 with LuPone as the hard-drinking Joanne and Katrina Lenk as the gender-swapped lead, a forever single 35-year-old New Yorker now named Bobbie.
The show, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, was nominated for a then-record-setting 14 Tony Awards in 1970, winning six.
LuPone made her Broadway debut in 1973 in “Three Sisters” and has racked up seven Tony nominations and two wins, for “Evita” and “Gypsy.” In 2019, she won an Olivier Award for “Company” on the West End.
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