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Celebrity Autobiography, nan Broadway specialty accumulation successful which bold-face names publication nan publication nan published memoirs of different bold-facers to much aliases little comic effect, will play its last capacity astatine nan Shubert Theatre connected Sunday, June 21, astir 2 months earlier than antecedently expected.
The show has been struggling to find an assemblage aft opening to poor reviews, or, astatine galore publications, nary reviews astatine all.
Celebrity Autobiography began performances connected Saturday, May 16, pinch an opening nighttime connected Monday, May 18. At nan clip of its closing, nan show will person played 3 preview performances and 40 regular performances. When it opened nan accumulation was trading tickets done Sunday, August 16.
The producers opportunity they will denote early plans for Celebrity Autobiography soon.
The production’s play grosses person been unsustainable done nan run, maxing retired astatine $74,437 for nan week ending June 7. That fig reflects an attendance of 3,300, conscionable 37% of nan Shubert’s capacity. The mean paid admittance was an anemic $22.56.
On various assemblage chat sites, galore attendees complained that nan worldly was well-worn from erstwhile world and location stagings of nan show going backmost years and had not been updated for Broadway. One extended conception focused connected nan musty romanticist entanglements of Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, hardly caller stuff.
The Broadway accumulation has not announced a recoupment of its capitalization, aliases nan magnitude of that capitalization.
The last database of rotating formed members who will person appeared successful Celebrity Autobiography see Caroline Aaron, Brooke Adams, Pamela Adlon, Scott Adsit, Lewis Black, Matthew Broderick, Danny Burstein, Mario Cantone, Bonnie Comley, Katie Couric, Mikey Day, Frank DiLella, Tate Donovan, Alexander Dreymon, Gina Gershon, Mickey Gooch Jr., Kathy Griffin, Jeff Hiller, Jackie Hoffman, Christopher Jackson, Gayle King, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Stewart F. Lane, Robert Sean Leonard, Ralph Macchio, Ben Mankiewicz, Andrea Martin, Eric McCormack, Bobby Moynihan, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Phil Rosenthal, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tony Shalhoub, Molly Shannon, Kenan Thompson, Nia Vardalos, Bruce Vilanch, Kate Walsh, Allison Williams, and Rita Wilson.
Celebrity Autobiography is produced connected Broadway by Rita Wilson, Eric Falkenstein and Douglas Denoff and nan show’s original shaper Angelo Fraboni, on pinch EP Productions, Peter Martin, Willette Klausner, Ken Schur, Mickey Gooch Jr., Danielle Druz, Ben Frimmer, Bruce Robert Harris, Leah Lane, David Moore-Strictly Business Entertainment, Roni Jacobson/Jeffrey Bank, Mark F. Kaplan, Jordan Scott Gilbert, Playhouse Capital/Beth Rudin DeWoody, Alexander “Sandy” Marshall & Susan Palmer Marshall/The Broadway Investors Club, Catherine Adler, Chris Bolan, Robert Zimmerman, Barry Kohn, Meister Leonard Addiss Hirschhorn/Jamie deRoy, Matt Finkelstein, Michael Cuomo/Vic Cairl, Julianne Hoffenberg, and Tisha Fein.
Scenic creation and costume creation are by Derek McLane, lighting creation by Ed McCarthy, and sound creation by Palmer Hefferan.
