Overview
- Producers announced Tuesday that Celebrity Autobiography will play its final Broadway performance on June 21 after a run that opened May 18.
- The production will have completed three previews and 40 regular performances when it closes instead of the originally scheduled August 16 end date.
- Box-office figures showed the run was commercially unsustainable with a weekly peak gross of $74,437, about 3,300 attendees and an average paid ticket of $22.56.
- Critics and some audience members said much of the material felt recycled from earlier stagings, a complaint that reviewers and ticket buyers linked to the show's weak demand.
- The show uses a rotating cast of celebrities reading from real autobiographies, a format first staged in Los Angeles in 1998, and producers said they will reveal future plans for the production soon.