Murphy and Blazer Will Not Sing 'LoveMusik' Until Tues.

Legendary director Harold Prince announced at a recent performance of the acclaimed Manhattan Theatre Club musical LoveMusik that Donna Murphy, who plays Lotte Lenya, and Judy Blazer, who plays Tilly Losch and one of Brecht's Women, will be out of the show until Tuesday evening.

Two-time Tony Award-winner Murphy (Wonderful Town, Passion) has been suffering from vocal trouble since after Saturday's matinee, while Blazer (Titanic, Bernarda Alba) has been sick for a number of days.  Ann Morrison (Merrily We Roll Along) and Jessica Wright (Company, Sweeney Todd), respectively, are currently performing in the actress' places.

LoveMusik, starring Michael Cerveris as Kurt Weill and Murphy as Lotte Lenya, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on May 3rd.

Suggested by the letters of Weill and Lenya, LoveMusik features a book by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winner Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy, Parade). Musical staging is provided by Patricia Birch (A Little Night Music), and direction by 21-time Tony Award-winner Harold Prince (The Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret, and Sweeney Todd). "LoveMusik follows the lives of the unlikeliest of lovers – the brilliant, intellectual German composer Kurt Weill (Cerveris) and the woman who became his muse and star, Lotte Lenya (Murphy). LoveMusik is an epic romance, set in Berlin, Paris, Broadway and Hollywood, spanning 25 years in the lives of this complicated couple," state press notes.

The production also features David Pittu (Bertolt Brecht) and John Scherer (George Davis), with Edwin Cahill, Herndon Lackey, Erik Liberman, Ann Morrison, Graham Rowat, and Rachel Ulanet.  LoveMusik features the lyrics of Maxwell Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, Howard Dietz, Roger Fernay, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Langston Hughes, Alan Jay Lerner, Maurice Magre, Ogden Nash, Elmer Rice and Kurt Weill.

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Photo of Donna Murphy by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.