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Death Becomes Her, nan critically acclaimed philharmonic drama that became 1 of nan strongest container agency performers of nan 2024-2025 Broadway play but has successful caller months been slipping beneath its erstwhile $1M+ play high-water grosses mark, will reason its tally astatine nan Lunt-Fontanne Theatre connected Sunday, June 28.
As of its last performance, nan philharmonic will person played 20 months, much than 650 performances and sold 900,000 tickets.
Lowe Cunningham, SVP, Head of Creative & Strategy, Universal Theatrical Group said coming connected behalf of nan producers, “Bringing Death Becomes Her to Broadway has been an unthinkable joy, and we are immensely proud of each artist, musician, unit member, and individual who helped make this show what it is. Night aft night, it has been a thrill to watch audiences travel together to laugh, celebrate, and clasp nan wildly entertaining tone of this production. We are profoundly proud of what this show has brought into nan world, and we are excited for its life to proceed arsenic it tours crossed nan U.S. and beyond successful nan years ahead.”
Read Deadline’s reappraisal of Death Becomes Her here.
Death Becomes Her will motorboat a multi-year North American circuit this September astatine Playhouse Square successful Cleveland. The charismatic way of nan first twelvemonth of nan North American circuit tin beryllium found here.
Despite its beardown container agency and 10 Tony Award nominations, Death Becomes Her has not recouped what has been wide reported arsenic a $31.5 cardinal capitalization, a stubbornly communal business among large fund Broadway musicals.
The formed and imaginative squad of Death Becomes Her made complete 30 nationalist tv appearances during nan Broadway run, completing interviews and philharmonic performances connected specified programs arsenic NBC’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, CBS’s Tony Awards, NBC’s The Tonight Show pinch Jimmy Fallon, NBC’s Today (four philharmonic performances and aggregate question and reply segments), CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s The Kelly Clarkson Show, Fox’s Sherri, Bravo TV’s Watch What Happens Live, ABC’s Nightline, NBC’s Late Night pinch Seth Meyers, and more.
Based connected nan Universal Pictures 1992 film, written by David Koepp and Martin Donovan and directed by Robert Zemeckis, nan philharmonic features guidance and choreography by Christopher Gattelli, a book by Marco Pennette, and an original people by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey. The accumulation stars Betsy Wolfe, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber, and Michelle Williams, pinch Taurean Everett and Josh Lamon.
Death Becomes Her is produced by Universal Theatrical Group (UTG), overseen by Jimmy Horowitz (Chairman of Business Affairs and Operations, NBCUniversal), and led by Lowe Cunningham (SVP, Head of Creative & Strategy, Universal Theatrical Group).
