Foreman, who is also the director of the new work, asked for the delay for medical reasons. According to the Los Angeles Times, he recently underwent triple-bypass surgery.

What to Wear? was described in an earlier press release as a "nonlinear opera" and a "surreal extravaganza." Foreman is founder and director of New York's avant-garde Ontological Theater and a mainstay of the East Village theater scene. His many plays include Now That Communism is Dead, My Life Feels Empty and Pearls for Pigs. Gordon is a founder of Bang on a Can and composer of the science fiction opera Chaos and the multimedia work Gotham.

A replacement has not officially been announced, but according to the Times, Erase-E(x), a dance-theater piece by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, dancer Johanne Saunier, and scenic designer Jim Clayburgh, will be added to the schedule.