Yahoo! News: "Billy Elliot the Musical" is planning its last dance on Broadway. Producers announced Monday that the Tony Award-winning show will play its final performance on Jan. 8, ending a more than three-year run at the Imperial Theatre on 45th Street that will have included 1,304 regular performances and 40 previews.
Friday, October 07, 2011
'Billy Elliot' to close on Broadway in January
Yahoo! News: "Billy Elliot the Musical" is planning its last dance on Broadway. Producers announced Monday that the Tony Award-winning show will play its final performance on Jan. 8, ending a more than three-year run at the Imperial Theatre on 45th Street that will have included 1,304 regular performances and 40 previews.
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I don't think this will be any serious loss to the Billy Elliott franchise. I think it will always be more successful in London because of the content. When I saw it a year ago I wasn't crazy about it but I see the value in it and partially why so many people love it. People won't be losing the opportunity to see it any time soon with the tour and West End. I guess it has miled the New York audience dry which doesn't necessarily speak to the quality of the show. Perhaps it just isn't the right kind of show to receive any sort of long term success in a run Broadway. The fact it ran 3 years is commendable.
3 years and recoup in just over a year is very respectable for a Broadway show, I completely agree, Jackson. Billy Elliot has had better success than many of the other shows on Broadway as of late, breaking the Imperial's all-time receipts record and surviving through severe economic downturn and big cash cows over the summer like ZARKANA and The Book of Mormon. The tour has been monumentally successful so far, though, and I expect that it will continue to run well. The theatre won't stay dark for long - the revival of Funny Girl moves in early 2012, along with some of next season's big announcements (Ghost, another West End transplant, being just one) entering the fray.
Although the show is going off Broadway, as Jackson mentioned, the strong three year run is definitely something to be credited for. There have been shows that have had shorter and less reputable runs that that of Billy Elliott. I think the show appeals more to audiences in London, which is why the rage over it is still strong there but died down in New York. Also, the show is obviously well liked by audiences since it will still be touring around the country and continuing on it's strong seven year run in London.
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