Sir Elton John's $25million Broadway musical closing just days after opening

Sir Elton John's multi cardinal dollar Broadway musical, Tammy Faye, created with Jake Shears and James Graham, volition enactment the curtain down for the last clip contempt opening days ago

Sir Elton John 's philharmonic has announced it is closing, conscionable days aft it opened connected Broadway.

Tammy Faye - which was created by the Tiny Dancer singer, James Graham, and Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears - officially opened astatine New York's Palace Theater connected 14 November but the curtain volition travel down connected the accumulation for bully connected 8 December pursuing 24 preview and 29 regular performances.

The announcement was made amid mediocre container bureau performances for the Rupert Goold-directed production, with it bringing successful a gross of $374, 371 (£296,323) successful the week ending 17 November, with an wide attendance of 5,732 - conscionable 63 percent of the venue's capacity. It has besides been criticised by US critics, with the New York Times branding it "strangely bland" and Variety dubbing the amusement a “misguided West End import”.

The closure quality came conscionable a time aft Jake, who wrote the lyrics for the musical, reflected connected the "ride" of bringing the accumulation to beingness and however it had been 1 of his astir "thrilling" adventures frankincense far.

He wrote connected Instagram : "What a thrust these past 12 years (and 12 weeks) person been. Getting Tammy Faye up connected Broadway has been 1 of the astir thrilling experiences of my life. What a joyousness moving with this full cast, their stamina and endowment staggering…and beauteous to watch.

"Thank you to each the collaborators, formed and crew.. I’m immensely arrogant of our work." He added: "I judge that philharmonic theatre is 1 of the astir archaic forms of art: analyzable and managerially elaborate. It’s the aforesaid process arsenic it was 800 years ago. There are nary shortcuts. And that’s what I emotion astir it the most. Also having amusive with brilliant, fantastic people.

"Thank you Team Tammy, and convey you to each my fam and friends that person supported maine and encouraged maine done the full process. And especially…thank you Tammy."

In 2022, the amusement - which tells the communicative of the eponymous TV evangelist - sold retired London's Almeida theatre, winning rave reviews and awards nominations.

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