Smash will play its remaining Broadway efficiency on June 22.
The musical, which is predicated on an NBC tv collection, is slicing its open-ended run on the Imperial Theatre quick after opening April 10. Robert Greenblatt, Neil Meron and Steven Spielberg are producers on the musical, which options course by Susan Stroman and a rating by Hairspray’s Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
The meta present follows a gaggle of Broadway producers, writers and actors attempting to placed on a Broadway present about Marilyn Monroe, however working into a number of obstacles, with among the songs tailored from the tv collection and a few written particularly for the manufacturing.
That is the primary present to put up a closing discover after the Tony Awards came about June 8. Smash was nominated for 2 Tony Awards, for greatest featured actor for Brooks Ashmanskas and for greatest choreography, however didn’t take residence any awards. The present additionally missed out on the important thing Tony nomination of greatest musical.
Nonetheless, the present has struggled on the field workplace and has seen an viewers drop off in current weeks, bringing in 66 and 68 % capability up to now two weeks. The musical hit its highest gross of $1 million within the week ended April 20, following its opening, however that’s possible not sufficient to offset the working prices of a musical this measurement.
Smash includes a e book by Rick Elice and Bob Martin, with choreography by Joshua Bergasse.
Along with Ashmanskas, the solid options Robyn Hurder, Krysta Rodriguez, John Behlmann, Kristine Nielsen, Caroline Bowman, Jacqueline B. Arnold, Bella Coppola, Casey Garvin, Nicholas Matos and Megan Kane.