Faye Dunaway has been fired from the previously Broadway-bound one-woman play TeaAtFive, according to various reports
In a statement, producers Ben Feldman and Scott Beck said of their decision: “The producers of ‘Tea at Five’ announced today that they have terminated their relationship with Faye Dunaway. Plans are in development for the play to have its West End debut early next year with a new actress to play the role of Katharine Hepburn.”Network
, based on the movie that won Dunaway an Oscar, opened on Broadway – with the actress set to star in the revival of Matthew Lombardo’s Katherine Hepburn bio-playDunaway, her reputation for being difficult and temperamental long established, performed the play in a pre-Broadway try-out in Boston from June 22 to July 14. A final-week performance was canceled without explanation.
Deadline has reached out to a spokesman for the production for comment. Dunaway reportedly was traveling in Europe and could not be reached.isn’t the first time Dunaway’s stage plans fell through. In 1994, after being cast to replace Glenn Close in the L.A. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’smusical, Dunaway was blindsided when Lloyd Webber instead shut down the L.A. production and publicly blamed the actress’ singing abilities . Dunaway filed a lawsuit, and the matter was settled out of court.
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