James Van Der Beek announced Sunday that he is forced to drop out of the live Dawson’s Creek reunion due to illness. Lin-Manuel Miranda will replace him for the reading of the pilot script.

The event is set to feature Dawson’s Creek original stars Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Busy Phillips, Mary Beth Peil, Mary-Margaret Humes, John Wesley Shipp, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith, and Meredith Monroe. The one-night-only event will benefit the F Cancer Organization and is set to take place in New York City.

Van Der Beek shared the news on Instagram, explaining that he contracted “two stomach viruses” that knocked him “out of commission.” The actor was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer last year after undergoing a colonoscopy.

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