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“The Heart of Rock and Roll,” a brand new jukebox musical powered by the songs of Huey Lewis and the News, will shut on Broadway on Sunday.
The present is the second to announce plans to shut within the wake of this 12 months’s Tony nominations, becoming a member of “Lempicka” on the listing of productions that might not discover an viewers throughout this jam-packed spring. “The Heart of Rock and Roll” opened on April 22 to better-than-expected opinions, however picked up zero Tony nominations. The present may have performed 24 previews and 72 performances.
During a really crowded interval on Broadway, the present was unable to interrupt by way of: It grossed $272,051 within the week ending June 9, which isn’t almost sufficient to cowl the operating prices of a full-size Broadway musical.
“The Heart of Rock and Roll” is a freewheeling romantic comedy a couple of younger man (performed by Corey Cott) working at a Milwaukee cardboard manufacturing unit however feeling the tug of his outdated band and creating a crush on the boss’s daughter (McKenzie Kurtz). The present, directed by Gordon Greenberg, encompasses a witty e book by Jonathan A. Abrams and even wittier choreography by Lorin Latarro; there was a pre-Broadway manufacturing on the Old Globe in San Diego in 2018.
The musical, taking part in on the James Earl Jones Theater, options a number of Huey Lewis and the News hits, together with “The Power of Love” and “Do You Believe in Love” in addition to the title music. Huey Lewis, now 73, stays a nostalgic favourite for followers of Nineteen Eighties tradition, and he threw himself into selling the present.
The lead producers are Tyler Mitchell, Hunter Arnold and Kayla Greenspan; it was capitalized for as much as $19 million, based on a submitting with the Securities Exchange Commission, and that cash has not been recouped.
The closing comes at a difficult time for Broadway, the place manufacturing prices have risen and attendance has fallen because the coronavirus pandemic. There are actually 32 exhibits operating on Broadway, and lots of of them are shedding cash every week.
