October 31, 2009
Jonathan Mandell
Producers Emanuel Azenberg and Ira Pittelman have officially announced that “Brighton Beach Memoirs” will close, and that plans to mount “Broadway Bound” have been scrapped:
“A lot of nice people on stage and off will be out of work and a lot of good partners and investors will have lost a great deal of money. They all deserve better. It makes us sad.”
The culprit was weak ticket sales. The era when Neil Simon ruled Broadway ended years ago, but that a Simon play lacks an audience to keep going more than a week comes as a big surprise.
The initial run of Brighton Beach Memoirs was from March 22, 1983 to May 11, 1986 — 1,299 performances.
Jonathan Mandell
Jonathan Mandell, who tweets as New York Theater, is a native New Yorker and third-generation journalist with diverse experience on newspapers, magazines and websites.He has ...
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