Two of Broadway’s more imposing figures are calling it quits: King Kong and The Cher Show have posted closing notices, the latest exits in the annual post-Tony culling. Each production will p…
Ain’t Too Proud, the $36.5 million special-effects-heavy musical that stars the massive, one-ton gorilla puppet operated by an on-stage team of technicians. Critics‘s grosses for the week ending June 23 were $782,914, about 53% of potential at the Broadway Theatre. That massive $36.5M will not be recouped when the show closes Aug. 18 after 29 previews and 324 performances.
, which won a special Tony Award for the creature design, was produced by Carmen Pavlovic and Roy Furman, with book by Jack Thorne, score by Marius de Vries and songs by Eddie Perfect; the director and choreographer was Drew McOnie, and the cast included Christiani Pitts, Eric William Morris and Erik Lochtefeld.is set for 2021, and producers say a North American tour, as well as productions in Japan and Spain, are in development.
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