James Van Der Beek has mentioned he’s “gutted” after having to drop out of Monday’s (September 22) Dawson’s Creek reunion profit on account of a extreme abdomen virus.
The actor, who performed the titular Dawson Leery on the favored WB teen drama, took to Instagram on Sunday evening (September 21) to disclose he has needed to pull out of the deliberate “Class Reunion” profit due to “two abdomen viruses” knocking him “out of fee.”
“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. “So you possibly can think about how gutted I used to be when two abdomen viruses conspired to knock me out of fee and maintain me grounded on the worst potential second.”
He continued, “Regardless of each effort… I gained’t get to be there. I gained’t get to face on that stage and thank each soul within the theater for displaying up for me, and towards most cancers, after I wanted it most.”
Van Der Beek revealed his colorectal most cancers prognosis again in November 2024. On the time, he advised Individuals, “I’ve been privately coping with this prognosis and have been taking steps to resolve it, with the help of my unimaginable household.”
Regardless of not with the ability to take part within the Dawson’s Creek reunion profit, the present will go on. As Van Der Beek revealed, he has a alternative able to step in, and it simply so occurs to be a theater legend, Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda.
“I DO have an understudy,” Van Der Beek shared. “A ridiculously overqualified alternative who would have been #1 on my wishlist (had I ever dreamed he’d be obtainable). Somebody my youngsters would undoubtedly contemplate an improve over me… Plus, he already is aware of how one can get to the theater. In order that’s handy. The position of ‘Dawson,’ normally performed by James Van Der Beek… Can be performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Can’t consider I simply bought to sort that.”
He concluded, “Everybody please get pleasure from all of the love in that room. Shine some on my household. I shall be beaming and receiving from afar in a mattress in Austin. And thanks @lin_manuel . You had been a hero to my youngsters earlier than… now you’re a demigod 😇.”
The “Class Reunion” present was introduced final month, with the Dawson’s Creek solid getting again collectively for the primary time for the reason that present wrapped to carry out a stay studying of the pilot episode script. Going down at New York Metropolis’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, proceeds from the occasion will profit F Most cancers and Van Der Beek.
These collaborating within the stay studying embrace Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Mary Beth Peil, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith, Meredith Monroe, and Busy Philipps.