“It’s a medium-sized show, but it increases the danger for the performers and the cost,” he said. Equity is requiring performers to be vaccinated before contracts will be approved. “Because of the time we go into rehearsal, we can’t be sure everyone in the cast will be fully vaccinated,” he said.
In its place, Hopkins will bring back the one-woman show “Sophie Tucker: The Last of the Red Hot Mamas,” originally developed by FST in 2001 with the late playwright Jack Fournier and its star, Kathy Halenda. It opens June 7.
It has been presented several times at FST and in more than two dozen other productions across the country. In the show, Halenda recounts the life and career of the legendary actress, singer and vaudeville star, known for such songs as “Dark Town Strutters Ball,” “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” “There’ll Be Some Changes Made” “My Yiddishe Mama” and “Some of these Days.”