He opens the season in Boston on Oct. 2. A recent history of missing performances for medical problems, after a career noted for dependability, has caused uncertainty and frustration within both institutions and among their audiences.
But by 1928 her habit of missing performances had earned her a suspension from Actors Equity, preventing her from appearing on Broadway.
Spiegel, parent of the Eddie Bauer retail chain, said Monday it filed for bankruptcy in the wake of missing performance targets tied to its beleaguered credit card business.
But his long stretches of missed performances in recent years have been debilitating for both organizations.
She expressed anger that a £250,000 audit by consultants KPMG, analysing a series of missed performance targets at Sellafield, had not been shared with her committee.
Mr Clarke and Mr McIlwee missed out on long-term shares worth a combined £2.4 million when the awards lapsed because of the missed performance targets.
For example, last year, when back surgery forced him to withdraw from performing for seven months, Mr. Levine missed three performances of Berg's "Lulu" at the Met in May.
Kristin Chenoweth missed two performances of "Wicked" last week, citing stomach problems, and a vocally strained Tonya Pinkins missed three shows of "Caroline, or Change" on Saturday and Sunday.
He wasn't able to attend, he said, because he didn't want to miss any performances of his Broadway show.
He was dogged by illness and even when he had a Broadway success, and a Tony nomination, in a revival of Inherit the Wind (1996), he missed many performances of his own show.
