Suffs, the double-Tony Award successful Broadway musical by Shaina Taub that counts Hillary Rodham Clinton amongst its producers, will shut January 5, 2025, producers introduced immediately.
The well-reviewed musical in regards to the suffragist motion started previews on the Music Field Theatre on March 26, with an official opening on April 18. When it closes, it would have performed 24 previews and 301 common performances.
A nationwide tour will launch at Seattle’s fifth Avenue Theatre in September 2025, with further cities to be introduced within the coming months.
Although the musical did stable enterprise all through many of the summer season – and scored six Tony nominations (together with Greatest Musical), successful two (Taub’s e-book and rating) – enterprise had been dropping. For the week ending October 6, attendance was at simply 78% of the Music Field’s capability. The weekly gross that week was $679,589, the bottom take since a summer season excessive of $942,785 for the week ending June 23.
Produced by Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, Jill Furman, and Rachel Sussman, Suffs is directed by Leigh Silverman, with choreography by Mayte Natalio. The musical tells the real-life tales of Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida B. Wells and different suffragists who fought for the passage of the constitutional modification giving girls the proper to vote.
“Bringing the story of the suffs to the stage has been an honor and we’re deeply grateful to our forged and firm,” stated producers Furman and Sussman. “Watching audiences encounter the inspiring girls of Suffs, a lot of whom they’d by no means heard of earlier than, has been extraordinarily profound, particularly on this election season. We’re thrilled to have performed a component in giving new life to the suffragists’ battle for the vote by way of Shaina Taub’s award-winning e-book and rating and look ahead to sharing it with audiences throughout the nation.”
The unique Broadway forged consists of Taub, Nikki M. James, Jenn Colella, Grace McLean, Hannah Cruz, Kim Blanck, Anastacia McCleskey, Ally Bonino, Tsilala Brock, Nadia Dandashi and Emily Skinner.
Suffs, which premiered Off Broadway on the Public Theater in April 2022, made historical past of its personal when it opened on Broadway, with Taub changing into solely the second girl in historical past to put in writing the e-book, music, lyrics and star in her personal Broadway musical. (The primary was Micki Grant in 1972 with Don’t Hassle Me, I Can’t Cope.)
