THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES To Close December 21, 2025 — Page 10

DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "Observation said: "Dang. I feel for the cast and crew of this show. It was doomed from the beginning and watching them not even try to course correct throughout this has to be frustrating for everyone involved. I wonder if Kristin’s injury just sealed the deal for an even earlier closure.


I hope Ryah gets a shot at it, I wish Sherie could just close this thing out."

What injury?"



It's been discussed in the chat, but for convenience, here's a link from BWW

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Kristin-Chenoweth-Returns-to-QUEEN-OF-VERSAILLES-After-Knee-Neck-Injury-20251208

DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "“Unfortunately, the harsh economic realities of new Broadway musicals in a post-Covid landscape have caught up with us... The industry as a whole is no longer seeing the audience behaviors we’ve relied on to shape our strategies for decades. This has led us to the painful decision to move our closing earlier, toSunday, December 21st."

Audience behaviors??? What?"

They clearly mean audience decision-making regarding ticket buying and show selection.

I interpreted it as people aren’t buying tickets during the holidays as much anymore.

Exactly. They should be blaming unions and landlords for making it nearly impossible to run a show on broadway these days.

Well, for producers, they’re playing the long game. They know the show won’t recoup on broadway, but they will make their money back from licensing. The only way a show is gonna be successful on broadway is if the costs come down. And those costs are not entirely to do with producers and everything to do with unions and rent and everything else

Sunset Boulevard was trumped up and that did decent

Fireplace said: "Sunset Boulevard was trumped up and that did decent"



It flopped and it wasn't about Trump supporters.

Their future sales must be terrible to not even stay open for one of the busiest weeks of the year.

They know the show won’t recoup on broadway, but they will make their money back from licensing."

Long game? What long game?

What theater company, stock venue, college - leave high schools out, with the language, drugs, and deaths - will produce this piece? It has no future. I can't see a Menier Chocolate Factory production re-inventing it with a cast of 10. But who knows? There was never an audience for this musicalized story, and without either of these two leading stars, won't be one.

Sunset still earned more than half of its investment back, won multiple Tonys, had some brief cultural impact and had many, many weeks of good business all of which QoV could only dream of. So I guess it depends on what you mean by decent but let’s not pretend it was a catastrophic failure. This is also in an environment where now almost no musicals make a profit on Broadway.

Sutton Ross said: "Fireplace said: "Sunset Boulevard was trumped up and that did decent"

No, no it didn't."

Also Trumped up HOW? Because of the hat debacle…? Please.

Bottom line is shows are super expensive to mount and run, and in my experience, audiences that can still afford to see them are playing it safe, they'd rather pay the hefty ticket prices for a pre-COVID familiar favorite or mainstay if not a MAJOR celebrity (which Kristin is most certainly not).

It's not worth it anymore to take a chance on something new without a significant discount or comp, it doesn't matter how good or bad a production is. That's live theatre's sad reality right now.