THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES To Close December 21, 2025

32 previews and 49 regular performances at the St. James Theatre.

Sure, word-of-mouth was largely negative, but it was grossing over $1 million a week at the time of this notice — if that's not at least somewhat safe these days for a musical, then what is?

Updated On: 12/9/25 at 05:39 PM

Wow that was fast. I’m sure Jamie is calling Rachel and or Andrew and Tim tonight.

I still don’t know if Andrew will go for it but he’s got to try now that the house we’ve all speculated will be available to him.

theatergoer3 said: "Wow that was fast. I’m sure Jamie is calling Rachel and or Andrew and Timtonight.

I still don’t know if Andrew will go for it but he’s got to try now that the house we’ve all speculated will be available to him."

I thought Andrew didn't want to compete with Cats. And Rachel is doing L5Y in London....

EDSOSLO858 said: "They better hurry up and put tickets on sale by Christmas if EVITA is indeed speeding onto Broadway this season."

It's pretty logical as the hype from EVITA Summer here in London is still hot.

I would imagine that this decision was less about how it’s been grossing thus far and more about the fact it didn’t have much of a viable path forward in the new year. The houses for Jan and Feb are basically entirely unsold and the negative word of mouth meant it had a very difficult path ahead- its grade on ShowScore is just 61, which is very bad for a site that tends to skew extremely positive.

Do we think this will survive until Jan 4th?
now let’s get Sherri in death becomes her !

In terms of L5Y, she can do that, then have EVITA open at the St. James in the Summer. Have it run through at least January, just so it can rack up hype for awards, then extend. Therefore, it can still be in "next season" but open next year.

Dylan Smith4 said: "In terms of L5Y, she can do that, then have EVITA open at the St. James in the Summer. Have it run through at least January, just so it can rack up hype for awards, then extend. Therefore, it can still be in "next season" but open next year."

I would imagine the producers will want to avoid a Sunset situation - an exciting early season opening, then slogging through many months of uninspiring sales during the winter doldrums, then not being able to fully capitalize on awards because the engagement ends in July and winding up with no recoupment.

BrodyFosse123 said: "WldKingdomHM said: "Do we think this will survive until Jan 4th?
now let’s get Sherri in death becomes her !"

She’s not interested in returning to Broadway in an 8 performances a week schedule, hence why she took this standby gig. Only goes on when needed so weeks (or months) could go by between performances."

Thank god she has you as her spokesperson!

Also she managed 8 perfs a week just fine with LITTLE SHOP. The QOV gig was an easy money no-brainer.

Call_me_jorge said: "I feel like the stop clause was used here… Bill Damaschke is a deep pocketed producer and would’ve kept it running through, at least, the Tonynominations."

He may be deep pocketed but that’s, like, minimum 20 million dollars to keep a show running until early May, on top of initial investment. It would never have been made back, even if it had run to the Tonys and even won some.

Updated On: 11/24/25 at 06:04 PM