The Alabama Story, a stage adaptation of the classic novel that announced a temporary closure in January after Jeff Daniels left the cast and a variant of Omicron crashed into New York, will not resume on Broadway.
The play’s screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher emailed the play’s cast and crew late Thursday, leaving former lead producer Scott Rudin away from his active role in the show. I blamed Rudin. After being accused of abusing a collaborator. According to Sorkin and Sher, “At the last moment, Scott reinserted himself as a producer. Frankly, he stopped playing again for reasons that neither of us could understand.”
Rudin, who continued to manage Harper Lee’s right to adapt to the stage, sent his email to Sorkin and Shah on Friday, lagging Broadway’s pre-pandemic level in overall ticket sales. Due to the economic situation. Both emails were retrieved by the Times.
“The reason I chose not to bring TKAM home is related to the lack of confidence in the climate of the theater next winter,” Rudin wrote using the acronym “Alabama Story.” “I don’t think the Mockingbird remount was competitive in the market,” he added.
The show continues to live a healthy life outside New York. Production in London’s West End began in March, and a national tour in the United States began in April in Boston. These works are unaffected by the Broadway closure.
The play kicked off on Broadway in late 2018, was a huge hit before the pandemic, and regularly sold tickets worth about $ 2 million a week. That’s pretty expensive for a play, and 19 weeks after the opening, it paid back $ 7.5 million in investment costs.
Broadway was closed in March 2020 due to a pandemic, To Kill a Mockingbird resumed in October last year, and Daniels returned to the star as Atticus Finch, as in the first year of the play. The play sold well until early January, except for a week when the groundbreaking Covid incident forced the performance to be cancelled. Daniels left the cast on January 2nd, when Broadway Gross had already plummeted due to a pandemic revival, and the show’s Gross became a crater.
The play stopped performing at the Shubert Theater on January 16th, and Barry Diller, who was then the lead producer at the time, said he would resume performances at the Belasco Theater on June 1st. That didn’t happen, and according to emails from Shah and Sorkin, the latest plan was to resume the performance at the Music Box Theater on November 2nd.
Sher and Sorkin described themselves as “broken hearts” in an email, saying “I mourn the loss of all the work that has just disappeared, on stage, behind the scenes, in front of the house.” In an email to them, Rudin said: I’m sorry to be disappointed. It’s the right decision for the show’s longevity. “
Sher, Sorkin, and Rudin all declined to comment, as did the spokesperson for the play.The decision not to resume the play Previously reported By website Showbiz411.
