Overview
- Van Der Beek said on Instagram that two intestinal viruses sidelined him from the one-night reunion.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda stepped into the role of Dawson for the live reading of the 1998 pilot.
- The event took place on September 22 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City.
- Almost the entire original cast participated, including Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Mary Beth Peil, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith, Meredith Monroe and Busy Philipps.
- The fundraiser supported F Cancer, and it followed Van Der Beek’s 2024 disclosure of stage-3 colorectal cancer.