“Dear Evan Hansen” and “Tina,” two Broadway musicals that sold well before the coronavirus pandemic but never recovered from the theater’s prolonged closure, both announced Tuesday that they would close later this summer.
“Dear Evan Hansen”, a rocking musical about an awkward teenager who tells a horrible lie, will end its Broadway broadcast on September 18, five years after winning the Tony Award for Best New Musical.
The show received huge acclaim and was a significant hit, but suffered a double blow from the coronavirus pandemic and a poorly received film adaptation, and has been soft at the box office in recent months.
“Tina”, a jukebox musical about the life and career of the iconic rocker Tina Turner, will end its release on August 14.
Both shows will continue to be played outside of New York. “Dear Evan Hansen” ended its production in London in October, but the North American tour sold well and continued. “Tina” will begin touring North America in September, and will also be touring the UK, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands.
“Dear Evan Hansen” began airing on Broadway on November 14, 2016 and opened on December 4, 2016. At the time of closing, there will be 21 preliminary performances and 1,678 regular performances.
The musical, produced by Stacey Mindich and directed by Michael Greif, began its life at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and then aired off Broadway on Second Stage before moving to Broadway. He won six Tony Awards, including for the score of Benge Pasek and Justin Paul, the book by Stephen Levenson and two of the performers: Ben Platt, who played the protagonist, and Rachel Bay Jones, who played his mother.
The show not only won Tony’s best musical, but the London production won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical, and the actors’ album won a Grammy.
The show, which has long recouped its capitalization costs and become profitable, regularly earned more than $ 1 million a week before Broadway closed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2021, a film adaptation was released and was the subject of significant online ridicule; it’s not clear how this affected the stage version, but profits have been volatile and slipping since the show resumed performances last December. The show raised $ 588,371 in the week ending May 29.
Tina, with music from the singer’s catalog and a book by Katori Hall, began her life in London and then moved to Broadway, starting the visuals on October 12, 2019 and opening on November 7, 2019. The musical, produced by Stage Entertainment, a major European production company, is directed by Philida Lloyd; won a Tony Award for Lead Actress Adrian Warren.
“Tina,” which has a much larger cast and more sophisticated physical output than “Dear Evan Hansen,” meaning it comes out more each week, grossed more than $ 1.5 million a week before the pandemic; it sold strongly again after resuming performances last fall, but its box office revenue fell with the arrival of the Omicron variant and never fully recovered. The show raised $ 909,006 during the week ending May 29. At the time of its closure, “Tina” will have played 27 preliminary performances and 482 regular performances.
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