James Van Der Beek is “gutted” he’s lacking the dwell “Dawson’s Creek” reunion, which reportedly bought out in 12 minutes final month.
The actor, who performed Dawson Leery on the hit teen drama, introduced Sunday on Instagram that he’s unable to make the journey from Austin, Texas, to New York Metropolis for the Monday occasion due to two abdomen viruses.
“That is the night I’d been wanting ahead to MOST since my angel Michelle Williams mentioned she was placing it collectively, method again in January,” Van Der Beek wrote. “Regardless of each effort… I received’t get to be there. I received’t get to face on that stage and thank each soul within the theater for displaying up for me, and in opposition to most cancers, after I wanted it most.”
Van Der Beek was anticipated to hitch his “Dawson’s Creek” forged mates Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Mary Beth Peil, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith, Meredith Monroe and Busy Philipps for a dwell studying of the present’s 1998 pilot episode. The sequence, which aired for six seasons, adopted aspiring filmmaker Dawson, his childhood greatest associates Joey (Holmes) and Pacey (Jackson), and his new neighbor Jen (Williams) as they navigated college, romance and a full vary of coming-of-age points. (Smith, Monroe and Philipps, who joined the sequence in later seasons, will likely be studying as different characters from the pilot.)
To mitigate any disappointment, Van Der Beek mentioned he will likely be changed by his “ridiculously overqualified” understudy: Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Miranda is “somebody my youngsters would undoubtedly think about an improve over me,” he joked. “Plus, he already is aware of tips on how to get to the theater. In order that’s handy.”
Going down at New York Metropolis’s Richard Rodgers Theatre on Monday, the ticketed occasion is a profit for F Most cancers and in help of Van Der Beek, who revealed final 12 months that he had been identified with Stage 3 colorectal most cancers. “Dawson’s Creek” creator Kevin Williamson instructed Selection that the profit was Williams’ thought and also will embody an public sale and picture ops for charity.
“She enlisted me, Thomas [Kail] and Greg [Berlanti] to assist,” Williamson mentioned. “Jason Moore agreed to direct [and] our whole ‘Dawson’s Creek’ household was excited to do that and really accommodating and beneficiant with their time.”
