‘Colored Man,’ ‘Waitress’ bug bitten on B’way

It’s curtains for two more Broadway shows, as the pandemic refuses to end its run and the new COVID variant tears through productions this holiday season.

The latest causalities of the virus are the Tony Award-nominated smash hit musical “Waitress” and the new groundbreaking play “Thoughts of a Colored Man.”

Producers of “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” which included Broadway luminary Sheryl Lee Ralph and “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kandi Burruss, announced Thursday that COVID-19 was the cause of the shuttering.

“While this is not the outcome we had hoped for, being part of this historic season on Broadway has been the greatest privilege of our lives,” read the joint statement obtained by the Daily News. “The theater industry’s great return is about so much more than the success or failure of any single production.”

The Keenan Scott II-written play, which was to run through March 2022, made history when it opened on Oct. 13 as the first Broadway show to be written, directed by, starring and lead-produced by Black men.

Starring Grammy Award nominees Tristan Mack Wilds and Luke James, Tony Award nominee Forrest McClendon, alongside Esau Pritchett, Dyllón Burnside, Bryan Terrell Clark, Garrett M. Turner and Da’Vinchi, “Thoughts of a Colored Man” was a part of Broadway’s 2021 reopening, which featured seven new plays by Black playwrights.

The Steven H. Broadnax IIIhelmed show played 79 performances and 13 previews at the Golden Theatre.

Meanwhile, Sara Bareilles’ “Waitress,” whose return was hotly anticipated, could not complete its run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre due to new cases of COVID-19 detected within the company and crew.

On Thursday evening, the show’s publicist Jackie Green announced the closing, noting the show only had two weeks left to play on Broadway.

“Waitress,” based on the 2007 movie written by the late Adrienne Shelly and starring Keri Russell, boasted an all-female production team led by Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus.

The show ended its run with two Black performers in the lead roles, Ciara Renée and Joshua Henry.

The closings follow Monday’s cancellation of “Jagged Little Pill,” the musical based on Alanis Morissette’s 1995 album of the same name.