The Third Story: injury to Kathleen Turner forces cancelations, perf's resume 21 Feb

Due to an injury sustained by Kathleen Turner offstage during the performance on 17 Feb, of MCC Theater's production of Charles Busch�s The Third Story have been forced to cancell three performances including last night, tonight and tomorrow. The production does not have understudies.

However, in true the-show-must-go-on fashion, Turner will return to the show, (in knee brace and with cane in hand) in time for this Saturday�s 21 Feb matinee performance, at which point the show will resume its normal playing schedule.

MCC Co-artistic Director Bernie Telsey, commented, �Kathleen Turner personifies the attitude of the Broadway trouper. Against any odds, she must, and will, make her performance.�

The comedy opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on 2 Feb 2009, following previews from 14 Jan, and is playing an extended run through to 15 Mar 2009.

Directed by Carl Andress, The Third Story also features Charles Busch, Jennifer Van Dyck, Scott Parkinson, Sarah Rafferty and Jonathan Walker.

The Third Story: A mother and son screenwriting team hunker down in Omaha after fleeing Commie-obsessed 1940�s Hollywood. A romantically-inclined but socially-inept princess makes a deal with an ancient witch. And tommy guns meet test tubes as a way-too-well-dressed first lady of the mob forms a desperate alliance with a cloning scientist whose experiments have had, um, less-than-consistent results.

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