“Dear Evan Hansen” and “Tina,” two Broadway musicals that had sold out well before the coronavirus pandemic but never recovered after the theater’s long closing, both announced Tuesday that they would close in late December. ‘this summer.
“Dear Evan Hansen,” an exciting musical about an awkward teenager who tells a terrible lie, will end its Broadway career on September 18, five years after it won the Tony Award for Best New Musical.
The show was a huge success and has been a major success, but it has suffered a double whammy due to the coronavirus pandemic and a poorly received film adaptation, and has been smooth at the box office in recent months.
“Tina”, a jukebox musical about the life and career of seminal rocker Tina Turner, will end her career on August 14th.
Both shows will continue to sound outside of New York. “Dear Evan Hansen” will close its production in London in October, but an American tour has been selling well and continues. “Tina” will begin a US tour in September, and also runs in Britain, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands.
“Dear Evan Hansen” began its Broadway career on November 14, 2016 and opened on December 4, 2016. By the time it closes, it will have performed 21 previous performances and 1,678 regular performances.
The musical, produced by Stacey Mindich and directed by Michael Greif, began its life on the Arena Stage in Washington, DC, and then had an Off Broadway on Second Stage before moving to Broadway. He won six Tony Awards, including the score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the book by Steven Levenson and two of his performers: Ben Platt, who played the main character, and Rachel Bay Jones, who played his mother.
Not only did the show win Best Tony Musical, but the London production won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the cast album won a Grammy.
The show, which long ago recovered its capitalization costs and became profitable, regularly grossed more than $ 1 million a week before Broadway closed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2021, a film adaptation was released and was the subject of a major online mockery; it’s unclear how this affected the stage version, but the brutes have been unstable and slippery since the show resumed performances last December. The program raised $ 588,371 during the week ending May 29th.
“Tina”, with music from the singer’s catalog and a book by Katori Hall, began her life in London and then moved to Broadway, starting with previews on October 12, 2019 and premiered on October 7, 2019. November 2019. The musical, produced by Stage Entertainment, a major European producer, is directed by Phyllida Lloyd; won a Tony Award for her lead actress, Adrienne Warren.
“Tina,” which has a much larger cast and more elaborate physical output than “Dear Evan Hansen,” which means it costs more to run each week, grossed more than $ 1.5 million. one week before the pandemic; it was reselling sharply after resuming performances last fall, but its box office revenue plummeted with the arrival of the Omicron variant and never fully recovered. The show grossed $ 909,006 during the week ending May 29th. At the time of its closing, “Tina” will have performed 27 previous performances and 482 regular performances.