After flying from downtown to Broadway and winning five Tony awards, “Peter and the Starcatcher†will close, the producers announced on Friday.
Written by Rick Elice and directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, the show - which imagines an origin story for Peter Pan and his Neverland pals - will deliver its final performance at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on January 20. It will have played 18 previews and 320 performances on Broadway; it moved there after an acclaimed run at New York Theater Workshop Off Broadway last spring.
Christian Borle won a Tony for his over-the-top comic role as the pirate Black Stache in the play. Other awards were for the show's lighting, costumes, sound, and sceni c design.
The show had never been a bestseller on Broadway; in recent weeks, audience capacity ranged from 62 percent to 78 percent. For the week ending Sept. 23, “Peter and the Starcatcher†grossed $294,536.
A national tour for the show will begin in August in Denver.
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