By Rennie Dyball
The show must go on … but without one of its stars for now.
Lily Rabe, the daughter of late actress Jill Clayburgh who passed away Friday, has canceled several performances of her Broadway show A Merchant of Venice to mourn the loss of her mother.
The show's opening day will be postponed, and Rabe's understudy will take over her role until she returns. When she does, she'll have a castmate to lean on who knew her mother well: Al Pacino.
The legendary actor had a five-year relationship with Rabe's mother, and the two remained friends after that. "Thank God we broke up!" Clayburgh once joked. "We were all wrong for each other."
Shakespeare's A Merchant of Venice was first presented this summer at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park before it made the move to Broadway. The New York Times reports that a new opening date will be confirmed next week.
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