Suffs, a Broadway musical concerning the ladies’s suffrage motion, is closing on Jan. 5, 2025, after about 10 months on Broadway.
The musical, which stars Shaina Taub, who additionally wrote its ebook and rating, had the backing of Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai, who have been each named as producers, and gained Tony Awards for the perfect ebook and rating.
Nonetheless, the musical, which opened on Broadway on April 18, has seen a gradual decline in grosses since hitting a excessive of $942,785.35 within the week ending June 23, which is the week following the Tony Awards. Suffs carried out on the ceremony, and took house the 2 trophies, however didn’t take house the highest prize of finest musical.
Attendance has been within the 80 p.c to 90 p.c capability vary for many weeks of the run, however the greater operating prices for Broadway exhibits make it arduous to maintain a present with out grosses constantly nearer to the $1 million degree.
A nationwide tour will launch at Seattle’s fifth Avenue Theatre in September 2025, with extra cities to come back.
The present is a largely sung-through historical past of the ladies’s motion to realize the fitting to vote, with Taub portraying activist Alice Paul. The musical, which is directed by Leigh Silverman, premiered Off-Broadway on the Public Theater in April 2022.
“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 Jill Furman and Rachel Sussman. “Watching audiences encounter the inspiring ladies 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 an element in giving new life to the suffragists’ struggle for the vote by means of Shaina Taub’s award-winning ebook and rating and sit up for sharing it with audiences throughout the nation.”
That is the newest musical from the 2023-2024 season to set a time limit, following the current bulletins made by The Pocket book and Water for Elephants, and the bulletins from The Who’s Tommy and Lempicka earlier this 12 months.