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Just a day before “A Night With Janis Joplin” was to have started its second New York run, producers announced on late Wednesday they were canceling the show.

The production, built around Mary Bridget Davies’s uncanny channeling of the 1960s diva’s spirit and sound, was to begin performances at the Gramercy Theater, following a short Broadway run that generated a fervent fan base. But on Wednesday, the producers — Todd Gershwin, Michael Cohl and Daniel Chilewich, in partnership with Live Nation — shuttered the show.

Patrick Confrey, a spokesman for the show, said on Thursday that the opening would be postponed indefinitely “due to production issues,” and that ticket-holders would be given refunds. He said he could provide no further information about the nature of those issues, or whether they cropped up suddenly, as the timing of the announcement suggested.

“A Night With Janis Jopin” was written and directed by Randy Johnson, and played 140 performances at the Lyceum Theater, earning mixed reviews tempered by enthusiasm for Ms. Davies. Mr. Johnson did not return a phone message seeing further information early Thursday.