The anticipated stage present was set to debut on the Outdated Vic in Could 2020 however was repeatedly postponed because of the Covid pandemic.
Nonetheless, those that had purchased tickets acquired an electronic mail on Thursday morning informing them that the theatre manufacturing had been cancelled.
An Outdated Vic spoksperson mentioned in an announcement shared with : ‘Following its postponement because of the pandemic, and regardless of an unlimited quantity of effort from all concerned, we now have now sadly and reluctantly concluded that we're unable to reschedule the present at a time potential for everybody concerned.
‘It’s been an extended journey to get thus far and regardless of two years of making an attempt laborious to make it work, it has proved not possible.
‘We’re sorry to not have higher information, and we wish to thanks in your continued endurance and understanding.’
It continued: ‘It’s laborious to consider that it’s virtually two years to the day that we must always have been stepping onto The Outdated Vic stage for the primary preview to share our present with an especially keen viewers (4000 Miles was one of many top-selling reveals ever to be scheduled at this theatre).’
The rep additionally famous how the Outdated Vic ‘misplaced all its earnt revenue in a single day and needed to maintain for nearly two years with out it’.
‘We're as disenchanted as you might be that this received’t be occurring however The Outdated Vic has an extra problem to face on prime of the frustration,’ they mentioned.
Ticketholders have been requested to, as an alternative of requesting a refund, donate the worth of the ticket to ‘help the Outdated Vic’s survival’.
Sharing their disappointment at not with the ability to see Timothee on the stage, one fan tweeted: ‘Summer time simply acquired much less sizzling.’
One other cried: ‘Not 4000 miles being cancelled completely … crying occasion at my home tonight.’
‘Not 4000 miles being cancelled, i’m crying on the ground at work all i do is lose,’ one different mentioned.
‘4000 miles cancelled is feeling rather a lot like i‘m by no means seeing timothée in individual once more,’ one other joined in.
Timothee, 26, was set to star within the play, which was to be directed by Matthew Warchus, as a 21-year-old who goes lacking whereas biking throughout the US along with his finest pal. Nonetheless, he later turns up immediately at his grandmother’s home in Manhattan after weeks of no communication along with his household.
4000 Miles first debuted off-Broadway in 2011 and acquired a nomination for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Followers will hopefully have the possibility to see Timothee on-screen quickly as he has a number of large initiatives on the way in which, together with Wonka and the Dune sequel.
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