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“Lempicka,” a brand new musical about an artistically and sexually adventurous painter, introduced Thursday night that it could shut on May 19, only a month after opening.
This is the primary present to fall after this 12 months’s Tony nominations had been introduced on Tuesday. “Lempicka” scored three nods — for the actresses Eden Espinosa and Amber Iman, in addition to for scenic design — however was shut out of the perfect musical class. It actually wanted a lift, as a result of its grosses have been anemic — final week it grossed $288,102, which is unsustainably low for a Broadway musical.
The musical, which has been in growth for years, had productions on the Williamstown Theater Festival and the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego earlier than arriving on Broadway throughout a crush of openings this spring; it started previews March 19 and opened April 14.
The present, which explores the lifetime of the Twentieth-century painter Tamara de Lempicka, was written by Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould and directed by Rachel Chavkin. Reviews had been combined to damaging.
The present, produced by Seaview and Jenny Niederhoffer, was capitalized for as much as $19.5 million, in line with a submitting with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That cash shall be misplaced. In an announcement, the producers stated, “We are so pleased with our manufacturing and the household of artists and artisans who’ve formed it. Few knew higher than Tamara de Lempicka that artwork isn’t simple however all the time definitely worth the effort.”
Broadway is filled with reveals proper now — there are 35 working, 12 of which opened within the 9 days earlier than the April 25 deadline to qualify for the Tony Awards. They are dealing with vital challenges, as a result of manufacturing prices have risen and attendance has fallen because the pandemic. Many business leaders imagine that a lot of the new musicals won’t succeed financially.
