Does Christina Applegate really have a broken foot? Does it matter? The Married with Children and Jesse star was removed from the cast of Sweet Charity last week for said ailment; this weekend, the producers of the show, which was in previews in Boston, announced that the musical will not continue on to Broadway. The star's injury aside, tickets were not selling, and reviews of Applegate's peformance were weak. As Michael Reidel, theater critic for the New York Post, told the Boston Globe yesterday, ''In January, I bet [producer] Barry Weissler dinner that he'd have to get rid of [Applegate] before New York," Riedel told us yesterday. ''Little did I know he'd have to get rid of the whole show."Christina Applegate Loses Broadway Break
Does Christina Applegate really have a broken foot? Does it matter? The Married with Children and Jesse star was removed from the cast of Sweet Charity last week for said ailment; this weekend, the producers of the show, which was in previews in Boston, announced that the musical will not continue on to Broadway. The star's injury aside, tickets were not selling, and reviews of Applegate's peformance were weak. As Michael Reidel, theater critic for the New York Post, told the Boston Globe yesterday, ''In January, I bet [producer] Barry Weissler dinner that he'd have to get rid of [Applegate] before New York," Riedel told us yesterday. ''Little did I know he'd have to get rid of the whole show."
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