It's a very strange feeling to see great reviews of The Forbidden Phoenix like the one in Now Magazine when I know that the show that's been reviewed no longer exists. Thanks to some incredibly bad luck, the actress playing Phoenix was hurt on opening. Her injury is too bad to continue in the physical role. Thanks to some quick thinking and generosity from the rest of the cast, the actress is going to switch her role with the actress playing Empress Dowager, who sits on a cart for the entire show.
Tomorrow, the cast will rehearse the two switched roles after they perform the original show (with our Phoenix on crutches). The cast will continue doing double duty, performing the show with the original cast while rehearsing the new roles. By Sunday, we'll have the official switch. I can't even begin to imagine how the cast is keeping everything straight, but I'm so proud of all of them for stepping up to the plate.
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