Remember when “Dawson’s Creek” changed its theme tune with one other one? Well, now they’re having to make use of an understudy for one of its stars for a particular occasion.
James Van Der Beek, who performed Dawson Leery on the hit teen drama which ran from 1998 to 2003, has introduced that he gained’t have the ability to take part in their deliberate “class reunion” due to sickness.
“This is the evening I’d been looking forward to MOST since my angel Michelle Williams said she was putting it together, way back in January…,” Van Der Beek wrote on his verified Instagram. “So you can imagine how gutted I was when two stomach viruses conspired to knock me out of commission and keep me grounded at the worst possible moment.”
Multiple co-stars, together with Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson, are scheduled for a studying of the present’s pilot at New York City’s Richard Rodgers Theatre Monday to elevate funds for the nonprofit F Cancer and Van Der Beek, who announced in November 2024 that he is living stage 3 with colorectal cancer.
“Despite every effort… I won’t get to be there,” he shared in his submit. “I won’t get to stand on that stage and thank every soul in the theater for showing up for me, and against cancer, when I needed it most.”
Instead he introduced “an understudy. A ridiculously overqualified replacement who would have been #1 on my wishlist (had I ever dreamed he’d be available).”
“Someone my kids would definitely consider an upgrade over me… Plus, he already knows how to get to the theater. So that’s convenient,” Van Der Beek wrote. “The role of ‘Dawson,’ usually played by James Van Der Beek… Will be played by Lin-Manuel Miranda.”
The actor thanked the Broadway star for stepping in and had some parting phrases for followers.
“Everyone please enjoy all the love in that room,” Van Der Beek wrote. “Shine some on my family. I will be beaming and receiving from afar in a bed in Austin.”