{"id":181721,"date":"2026-04-01T03:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181721\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:20:06","slug":"megan-thee-stallion-taken-to-hospital-after-leaving-moulin-rouge-the-musical-mid-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181721\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Thee Stallion taken to hospital after leaving &#8220;Moulin Rouge! The Musical&#8221; mid-performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Thee Stallion was taken to a New York City hospital after leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/megan-thee-stallion-will-make-broadway-debut-in-moulin-rouge-the-musical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">a performance of &#8220;Moulin Rouge! The Musical&#8221;<\/a> mid-show Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the singer told CBS News New York in a statement, &#8220;During Tuesday night&#8217;s production, Megan started feeling very ill and was promptly transported to a local hospital, where her symptoms are currently being evaluated. We will share additional updates as more information becomes available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Further details have not yet been made available.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old performer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/megan-thee-stallion-moulin-rouge-broadway\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">made her Broadway debut last week<\/a>, taking over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/first-looks-at-cats-the-jellicle-ball-megan-thee-stallion-in-moulin-rouge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">the role of Zidler<\/a>. She made history as the first woman to play the character.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, Megan Thee Stallion is scheduled to remain in the cast through May 17.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Moulin Rouge! The Musical&#8221; opened on Broadway in 2019 and went on to win 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The show is set to close on July 26.<\/p>\n<p>The musical is currently on tour across the United States, and additional productions have opened and are planned around the world, from London to Australia to Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megan Thee Stallion was taken to a New York City hospital after leaving a performance of &#8220;Moulin Rouge!&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[207,47883,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-181721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-broadway","tag-megan-thee-stallion","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}