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Boris Kodjoe will take over for Terrence Howard in Broadway's "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof".
Howard's temporary exit is to fulfill contractual obligations for a movie job, a spokesman said. Howard rejoins the production May 23.
With this Feb. 21 announcement comes confirmation that tickets are on sale through June 15, which represents an extension of the "strictly limited run" (which was previously on sale to April 13). The staging is so high-profile that an extension announcement was expected.
The revival of the 1955 Tennessee Williams classic at the Broadhurst Theatre marks the first time the play has been seen on Broadway with an African-American cast.
Howard is known for his work in Hollywood's "Crash" and "Hustle & Flow." He was Academy Award-nominated for the latter.
Kodjoe was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People Magazine in 2002, and might be best known as a cast member of TV's "Soul Food." His film credits include "All About Us" and "Madea's Family Reunion," among other pictures.
Previews for the Debbie Allen-directed Cat began Feb. 12 toward an opening of March 6.
Williams' Southern-fried feast of family greed, lies and sexual tension, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, is no longer set in the 1950s, but suggests the past 15 years or so.
Allen's cast includes James Earl Jones as Big Daddy, the dying patriarch of the Pollitt family, whose cotton-crop fortune is up for grabs; film actor Howard, making his Broadway debut as Brick, the favored ex-jock son who is now a heap of booze and regret (and repressed homosexuality), unable to give his voracious wife, Maggie (Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose) a child; Phylicia Rashad as Big Mama, facing the loss of her man; Giancarlo Esposito as Gooper, the son whose greatest asset may be the children - also known as "no-neck monsters" - he and his wife, Mae (Lisa Arrindell-Anderson), have been able to produce.
