By WILLIAM GRIMES
APRIL 9, 2015
“Mamma Mia!,” the hit musical based on the songs of the Swedish pop group
Abba, will end its 14-year run on Sept. 5. The show, which opened at the
Winter Garden on Oct. 18, 2001, and moved to the Broadhurst Theater in 2013,
will close after 5,765 performances, making it the eighth-longest-running
show in Broadway history, seen by more than 7 million people.
Judy Craymer, the show’s creator and global producer, is to announce the
closing after Thursday night’s performance. “I am thrilled that ‘Mamma Mia!
’ has brought the music of Abba to Broadway,” Ms. Craymer said in a news
release. “And so grateful to the hundreds of wonderful actors, musicians,
stage managers, crew, front of house staff and the other people of the
theater who have given their professional lives and souls to be part of the ‘
Mamma Mia!’ family and adventure on Broadway.”
The Broadway show has grossed more than $600 million. For years it steadily
took in nearly $1 million a week at the box office, but sales had declined in
the last two years. Ticket sales, helped by the holiday weekend, totaled
$813,160 for the week ending April 5, out of a potential gross of just over
$1.1 million.
More typically, the show had been averaging about $500,000 each week.
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怎么会这么突然?
纽约游学时一起看戏的朋友转贴给我这个消息
想当时看得很high! 很美好的一晚
想朝圣的要把握机会了