NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Actress Mary Tyler Moore has withdrawn from Neil Simon's latest New York City play just two weeks before opening night, the BBC reported Saturday.
The former sitcom star was due to open in an off-Broadway production of "Rose's Dilemma" at the Manhattan Theatre Club, New York on Dec. 18.
But she missed two performances on Wednesday and has since been replaced by her understudy, Patricia Hodges.
In a statement in Friday's New York Times, Moore's spokeswoman said she felt "pushed out" of the production.
In "Rose's Dilemma," Moore was to have played a hard-up woman who hires a ghost writer to complete her dead lover's unfinished last novel. Previews were scheduled to begin Dec. 12.
"We are disappointed that the Neil Simon-Mary Tyler Moore collaboration did not work out," said Lynne Meadow and Barry Grove of the Manhattan Theatre Club.
In the Times statement, the actress was said to be "devastated and completely debilitated professionally and personally."
