BEAUTIFUL Closing October

Well, this is a first. I got to the news before Playbill.com did.

Congrats to an INCREDIBLE run for the entire cast and creative team. I saw the show with Melissa Benoit and Kara Lindsay, and it was a great afternoon at the theatre, as well as a well-done jukebox musical that has inspired a lot of copycats. While it wasn't my favorite thing I've seen in the theatre, it was still a great show, and it was the first time I cried in a Broadway theatre. "You've Got a Friend" always gets me.

disneybroadwayfan22 said: "Damn, what is there left to see now?"

One of the 40+ other shows on Broadway.

Jordan Catalano said: "I sure would love a Sondheim show like “Company” to go into the Sondheim."

I said the same thing! Or maybe that rumored Assassins revival that shows up on the chat board every few months.

Also, glad to see that Playbill.com finally got the memo: http://www.playbill.com/article/beautifulthe-carole-king-musical-sets-closing-date-on-broadway

Jordan Catalano said: "I sure would love a Sondheim show like “Company” to go into the Sondheim."

Actually, that theater would be perfect for the incoming London "Company".

When Beautiful closes, it will 1 month short of it’s 6 year anniversary since previews began and 3 months short of it’s 6 year anniversary from opening. When it comes down to it, the run has been nothing short of spectacular.

Many talented people have come out of this show to move on to bigger things—Abby Mueller, Alysha Deslorieux, and Paris Nix, to just name three really started to start breaking through with Beautiful. For people who grew up with Carole King, the joy it brought was intense. In 30 years of seeing theater with my parents, I’ve seen them enjoy few things as much as it. But it’s because it was something they lived and loved. If a show does that to someone, I don’t care about issues with the book or anything else.

In the end, Broadway is a business. Like any business, it runs with the money. I think people are perceiving the number of closings announced in a short span of time as being unusual, but when we look at it, this week, two long running shows with dropping numbers closed. Be More Chill never lived up to it’s off Broadway hype, Pretty Woman saw it’s grosses drop dramatically after that newness wore off, and King Kong never managed to put it together in a way that appealed to audiences or critics.

I feel like part of the shock is coming from because we’ve seen 5 musicals announce their closing in the past month. We like to view musicals as stable. In the end stability is the characteristic of an outlier.

Beautiful has had a phenomenal run and I know that cast and crew will be back to very soon.

Evan Todd (Gerry Goffin) announced on Instagram that his last day with the show is August 28, 2019.

Updated On: 7/17/19 at 11:04 PM

RWPrincess said: "I knew this was inevitable but was hoping they’d stick it out until January like Waitress. I wonder if Chilina will come back to close it out. She mentioned on Instagram that she was only taking a leave of absence to do The Band’s Visit tour.


She might be able to as she will be finishing her run in the Toronto( a home base of hers) stop of The Band's Visit on Oct 20 . It would be pretty tight w no time to rehearse but maybe if the producers r willing...