As smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed New York City and seeped into theaters, alarming each ticket holders and performers, the Broadway productions of “Hamilton” and “Camelot,” in addition to a Free Shakespeare within the Park manufacturing of “Hamlet,” canceled performances.

“Hamilton” introduced at 6:45 p.m. that it was canceling its 8 p.m. efficiency Wednesday night time as a result of so many forged members had referred to as in sick.

“Tonight’s performance of Hamilton will not go on as scheduled,” Shane Marshall Brown, a spokesman for the manufacturing, stated in a press release. “The hazardous air quality in New York City has made it impossible for a number of our artists to perform this evening.”

At about the identical time, Lincoln Center Theater announced that its Broadway revival of “Camelot” was additionally canceling a Wednesday night time efficiency; spokeswoman Juliana Hannett cited “the impact of the air quality on our artists.”

“Shucked,” a brand new musical, deliberate a concert-style efficiency of its present, that includes composer Brandy Clark, after a number of actors referred to as out sick for causes {that a} spokesman stated have been unrelated to air high quality.

The Public Theater canceled the ultimate costume rehearsal for “Hamlet” on Wednesday night time, and stated the lack of rehearsal time plus ongoing concern about air high quality was prompting it to cancel the primary two scheduled previews of the play, on Thursday and Friday nights.

Broadway’s theater homeowners and producers held an emergency assembly Wednesday afternoon to debate the influence of declining air high quality, however, aware that many patrons and performers have been already in place for the night’s exhibits, determined to let any exhibits that might proceed with their performances that night time. There have been 31 performances initially scheduled to happen at Broadway theaters on Wednesday night time; due to upgrades made in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the theaters have air filtration methods which can be supposed to have the ability to scale back pollution.

“Broadway remains open this evening and most shows are set to perform,” the Broadway League’s president, Charlotte St. Martin, stated in a press release.

The resolution got here as air high quality ranges in New York reached document ranges of unhealthiness, and as many organizations, together with the New York Yankees, have been canceling occasions — initially largely outside, however then, because the haze lingered, indoors, too.

The smoke has been affecting dwell performances in New York for greater than 24 hours. On Tuesday night time, the Public Theater lower quick a technical rehearsal of “Hamlet,” citing air high quality issues, after which on Wednesday morning Little Island, a small park constructed on the Hudson River, canceled its art-making actions.

Broadway felt its first main influence shortly after 2 p.m., when the actress Jodie Comer stopped her acclaimed (and bodily demanding) one-woman present, “Prima Facie,” just 10 minutes after it began, saying she was having hassle respiratory. The present restarted along with her understudy, and Comer returned for the Wednesday night efficiency.

There have been a number of different scrapped performances as authorities officers started speaking extra loudly concerning the well being dangers of going out. Vineyard Theater canceled a performance of its new play, “This Land Was Made.” New York Live Arts canceled a dance efficiency in Times Square by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. And BRIC, a Brooklyn-based arts group, canceled the opening night of its Celebrate Brooklyn pageant, which was to incorporate a live performance headlined by Taj Mahal and Corinne Bailey Rae.