Goodbye 'Grey's,' hello Great White Way.
T.R. Knight has been released from his contract with "Grey's Anatomy," Entertainment Weekly reports. And he may be headed for Broadway.
Knight, who trained for the stage, recently did a reading of "Lend Me A Tenor," with a cast of big-name acting luminaries including Alfred Molina, Tony Shalhoub and Marian Seldes.
Knight is in discussions to bring a revival of the period farce, which involves an opera company suddenly in need of a leading man just before curtain.
After premiering in London's West End in 1986, the show was last seen on Broadway in 1989, directed by Jerry Zaks, and it ran for 476 performances.
As for the fate of George O'Malley, there is some speculation that his character may live on to be replaced by a different actor, a possibility left open by the finale's major plot twist in which it's revealed that George is the faceless patient who's been hit by the bus.
Or, his character may have been killed off.
Knight had reportedly been miffed at his character's thin plotlines after a rift developed between him and the show's creator, Shonda Rhimes.
Rhimes says the absence of screen time for O'Malley was just part of the normal cyclical changes in an ensemble-cast drama.
Either way, "Grey's Anatomy" fans now seem to have one fewer cliffhanger to wonder about over the summer. And T.R. Knight fans can muse about what's in store for the actor post Seattle Grace Hospital.
from The New York Daily News
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