‘Talley’s Folly’ Postponed Until August : Stage: Paul Sand pulls out of the Grove Theater Center production, which had been scheduled to open this week. Alan Feinstein will replace him.

The Grove Theater Center has postponed its production of “Talley’s Folly,” which had been scheduled to open this week at the Festival Amphitheater.

GTC executive director Charles Johanson said a preview Wednesday and the opening night performance Thursday had been canceled because Paul Sand, one of two players in the cast, had a scheduling conflict. Johanson said Sand was called into rehearsals for “Schlemiel the First,” a new musical set to go on tour and possibly to Broadway in March.

GTC’s revised dates for “Talley’s Folley,” a 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning romantic comedy, are Aug. 9 to 20, Johanson said.

Johanson said that Alan Feinstein will take Sand’s role and that the show will go back into rehearsal. He said that GTC “originally wanted Feinstein” for the role but that Feinstein couldn’t take it because he already was committed to a role in “Sisters,” which recently opened at the Pasadena Playhouse. Johanson said Feinstein gave notice Tuesday that he would be leaving “Sisters” to do “Talley’s Folley.”

Feinstein, who played Jamie in Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey into Night” in Garden Grove in 1992, won a New Drama Desk Award for his role as Marco in a New York revival of Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge.” He also played Stanley in a 25th anniversary Broadway revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” reportedly handpicked by Tennessee Williams for the role.

Patricia Boyette will play the other role in “Talley’s Folly,” as originally cast, Johanson said.