{"id":224280,"date":"2026-05-08T04:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:26:15","slug":"the-book-of-mormon-cancels-broadway-performances-through-may-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224280\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Mormon Cancels Broadway Performances Through May 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the Eugene O\u2019Neill Theatre on Monday.
(\u00a9 FDNY)<\/p>\n

The producers of The Book of Mormon<\/a> and ATG Entertainment, which owns at operates the Eugene O\u2019Neill Theatre, have announced that performances of the hit Broadway musical will be canceled through May 17.<\/p>\n

This is the result of a three-alarm fire at the O\u2019Neill<\/a> Monday morning which left one firefighter with minor injuries. All theater staff are safe and accounted for (The Book of Mormon does not perform on Mondays). The FDNY extinguished the fire, which was declared under control shortly after noon.<\/p>\n

According to an official statement, the fire was limited to the follow spot booth (a lighting booth near the top of the house) and the exact cause is unknown.<\/p>\n

\u201cATG Entertainment and The Book of Mormon extend their deepest thanks to the firefighters and emergency responders for their bravery and speedy response,\u201d the statement reads, adding that they are \u201ccurrently working with a team of industry professionals to begin repairs needed to the building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ticket holders for impacted performances will be notified via their point of purchase to receive refunds or reschedule.<\/p>\n

The 2011 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, The Book of Mormon recently celebrated 15 years since it opened on Broadway. A week of special performances with original cast members had been announced<\/a> for the week of June 9-14. It is unclear whether the theater will be ready to receive audiences by then, although the latest press statement says that performances are \u201canticipated to resume at the Eugene O\u2019Neill in the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the Eugene O\u2019Neill Theatre on Monday.(\u00a9 FDNY) The producers of The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-224280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224280","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=224280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}