• Hugh Jackman, a Hollywood actor, has tested positive for the new coronavirus for the second time.
• The Wolverine actor got the bug a day after playing ‘The Music Man’ at the 2022 Tony Awards on Monday night.
• As a result of his illness, Jackman will not appear in the Broadway musical from June 14 to 21.

The Greatest Showman star, 53, revealed on social media that standby actor Max Clayton would play Professor Harold Hill alongside Sutton Foster in all performances of Meredith Willson’s musical comedy.

“I’ve frustratingly tested positive for Covid. Again. My standby, the amazingly talented @maxmclayton will step in for me. What’s most annoying is I don’t get to see him perform! I’ve said it before, and will say it a million times more … Maxi and all the standbys, swings and understudies around the world, you are the true heroes of theater. You give life to the saying ‘the show must go on’,” the Logan actor wrote in his Instagram post.

Meanwhile, Jackman, who has had a coronavirus booster vaccine, tested positive for COVID-19 in December 2021.