Suffs, a Broadway musical in regards to the girls’s suffrage motion, is closing on Jan. 5, 2025, after about 10 months on Broadway.
The musical, which stars Shaina Taub, who additionally wrote its e book and rating, had the backing of Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai, who had been each named as producers, and received Tony Awards for the perfect e book and rating.
Nonetheless, the musical, which opened on Broadway on April 18, has seen a gradual decline in grosses since hitting a excessive of $942,785.35 within the week ending June 23, which is the week following the Tony Awards. Suffs carried out on the ceremony, and took residence the 2 trophies, however didn’t take residence the highest prize of greatest musical.
Attendance has been within the 80 % to 90 % capability vary for many weeks of the run, however the greater working prices for Broadway reveals make it arduous to maintain a present with out grosses persistently nearer to the $1 million stage.
A nationwide tour will launch at Seattle’s fifth Avenue Theatre in September 2025, with extra cities to return.
The present is a largely sung-through historical past of the ladies’s motion to achieve the best to vote, with Taub portraying activist Alice Paul. The musical, which is directed by Leigh Silverman, premiered Off-Broadway on the Public Theater in April 2022.
“Bringing the story of the suffs to the stage has been an honor and we’re deeply grateful to our solid and firm,” mentioned producers Jill Furman and Rachel Sussman. “Watching audiences encounter the inspiring girls of Suffs, lots of whom that they had by no means heard of earlier than, has been extraordinarily profound, particularly on this election season. We’re thrilled to have performed an element in giving new life to the suffragists’ struggle for the vote via Shaina Taub’s award-winning e book and rating and sit up for sharing it with audiences throughout the nation.”
That is the most recent musical from the 2023-2024 season to set a cut-off date, following the latest bulletins made by The Pocket book and Water for Elephants, and the bulletins from The Who’s Tommy and Lempicka earlier this 12 months.