"The $22.5 million Broadway musical The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth and scored by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) will play its final performance on Jan. 4 at the St. James Theatre. What was supposed to be a high-gloss Broadway blockbuster is shuttering less than three months after opening night. The musical was adapted from the 2012 documentary film of the same name, which chronicles the attempts of a wealthy Florida couple to build the largest private home in America,"
"Tom Stoppard, the English playwright whose mix of dazzling wordplay, intellectual bravado, and emotional undercurrents made him one of the most influential dramatists of the past half-century, died on Saturday at age 88. The lights of Broadway were dimmed in his honor on Tuesday night. For theatergoers, Stoppard represented a kind of artistic guarantee: a night at the theater where ideas mattered where philosophy, mathematics, history, and quantum theory could coexist with pratfalls, romance, and jokes sharp enough to bruise."
The Queen of Versailles, a $22.5 million Broadway musical starring Kristin Chenoweth with a score by Stephen Schwartz, will close Jan. 4 at the St. James Theatre after less than three months. The production, adapted from the 2012 documentary about a wealthy Florida couple and the 2008 financial crash, struggled to sustain a coherent tone amid lavish spectacle, satire, and heartbreak. Producers appear to have concluded that continued losses made closure preferable. Separately, Tom Stoppard, the celebrated English playwright known for intellectual, witty dramas, died at age 88 and received Broadway tributes.
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