Injured Broadway Stars Hope for Quick Returns to the Stage
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Home PageToday's PaperVideoMost PopularTimes TopicsSearch All NYTimes.comArtsWorldU.S.N.Y. / RegionBusinessTechnologyScienceHealthSportsOpinionArtsArtDesignBooksDanceMoviesMusicTelevisionTheaterVideo GamesStyleTravelJobsReal EstateAutos October 31, 2011, 1:00 pmInjured Broadway Stars Hope for Quick Returns to the Stage By PATRICK HEALYSara Krulwich/The New York TimesJan Maxwell in “Follies.”The stars of two Broadway musicals – Jan Maxwell of “Follies” and Josh Gad of “The Book of Mormon” – have been temporarily sidelined from their shows because of injuries.Ms. Maxwell, a four-time Tony Award nominee, said in a telephone interview on Monday that she was struck by a minivan while crossing West 45th Street after the Saturday matinee performance of “Follies,” in which she plays the society wife Phyllis Rogers Stone.“The winter storm Saturday was picking up and I thought there wasn’t room on 45th Street for another lane of traffic, but the next sound I heard was my body hitting the minivan, and I went up and came down to the ground,” Ms. Maxwell said. “It’s really humbling to hear the words ‘it’s over’ cross your mind. With the adrenaline I thought I was fine, at first, but then the pain kicked in.”She said she was icing her left leg and right arm, which remain bruised, and that she is scheduled to have X-rays later Monday. She said she hoped to return to the show as soon as Tuesday night, but that was uncertain; she had never missed a performance for illness or injury before last weekend. In her living room on Sunday night, she rehearsed “The Story of Lucy and Jessie,” her biggest dance number from the show, to try to modify some of the movements to be pain-free.Mr. Gad, meanwhile, began Thursday night’s performance of “Mormon,” in which he plays the sweetly grating Elder Cunningham, but was injured midway through and was replaced by an understudy. At the end of Thursday’s performance, Andrew Rannells, who co-stars with Mr. Gad as one of two young Mormon missionaries in Africa, told the audience that Mr. Gad had been injured, according to one audience member and postings on theater blogs.A spokesman for the production said on Monday that Mr. Gad did not perform over the weekend but may return in Tuesday night’s performance. 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