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Showtime is running out! Broadway's “SCREAMINGLY GOOD FUN!” (Variety) musical comedy will play its final performance on January 8! Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film, BEETLEJUICE tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes. With an irreverent book, an astonishing set, and a score that’s out of this Netherworld, BEETLEJUICE is “A FEAST FOR THE EYES AND SOUL!” (Entertainment Weekly). And under its uproarious surface (six feet under, to be exact), it’s a remarkably touching show about family, love, and making the most of every Day-O!

Theater|‘Beetlejuice’ to Close on Broadway

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/theater/beetlejuice-broadway-closing.html

The show had a bumpy, boisterous run, and will now begin a tour.

Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

Published Sept. 20, 2022Updated Sept. 21, 2022

“Beetlejuice,” an exuberantly ghoulish musical that was so on brand it came back from the dead, will end its Broadway run on Jan. 8, the show’s producers announced Tuesday.

This is the latest in a string of closings as Broadway grapples with diminished tourism, fewer Manhattan office workers and an inflation-driven rise in production costs following the lengthy pandemic shutdown of theaters. Last week, “The Phantom of the Opera,” which is Broadway’s longest-running show, announced that it would close in February; over the weekend “Dear Evan Hansen” closed and “Come From Away” is closing early next month.

“Beetlejuice,” adapted from the 1988 film, has had a bumpy ride on Broadway. It opened in 2019, but sales were weak enough that the Shubert Organization asked it to vacate the Winter Garden Theater; before it did so, sales rebounded thanks to a viral embrace of the show on social media, and then, while it was still trying to figure out its next steps, the pandemic shuttered all theaters.

The show, produced by Warner Bros. Theater Ventures and Langley Park Productions, returned to Broadway last April, now at the Marquis Theater, and its grosses have been decent — $930,798 during the week that ended Sept. 18 — but apparently not good enough to sustain a long run for a large-scale musical. At the time of its closing it will have played 679 performances, including the runs at both theaters.

The musical features songs by Eddie Perfect and a book by Scott Brown and Anthony King; it is directed by Alex Timbers. The show is planning a tour starting in December in San Francisco.

“Beetlejuice” was originally capitalized for $21 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It has not recouped those costs.

Beetlejuice will end its Broadway run at the Marquis Theatre on Jan. 8, 2023, producers announced today, making the musical the second high-profile production in recent days to announce a post-holiday departure.

Last Friday, The Phantom of the Opera announced that it would end its 35-year run in February, a casualty of a market still soft from the Covid pandemic’s impact on tourism, among other factors.

Though Beetlejuice, directed by Alex Timbers and starring Alex Brightman in the title role (played by Michael Keaton in the original 1988 Tim Burton film), hasn’t had anywhere near the longevity of Phantom, its lifetime on Broadway has been, as producers concede, unconventional, to say the least.

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The musical opened at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre on April 25, 2019, receiving so-so reviews and getting off to a slow start with audiences. With the Shubert Organization hoping to clear the venue for the revival of The Music Man with Hugh Jackman, Beetlejuice was forced to post a closing notice for June 2020.

That notice became moot, though, when the Covid shutdown hit Broadway in March 2020, leaving Beetlejuice exiting without a proper send-off. And in the meantime, the show had surprised the theater community by steadily and rather dramatically building ticket sales through favorable, fan-based word-of-mouth.

A reprieve came two years later, when producers re-opened Beetlejuice on April 8, 2022, this time at the Marquis Theatre, with Brightman reprising his starring role. The production pulled in especially good numbers early on, peaking the week of June 26 with a weekly box office take of $1,231,852.

The numbers have been mostly declining over the summer though, dropping to a low of $762,166 by the end of August. The most recent figures available, for the week ending Sept. 18, show an increase (to $930,790) though only about 83% of seats were occupied.

When Beetlejuice plays its final Broadway performance on Sunday, January 8, 2023, it will have played 27 previews at the Winter Garden Theatre and 366 regular performances there, and 313 regular performances during its “resurrection” at the Marquis, for a total of 679 Broadway performances.

A road production of the musical launches a 26-city national tour on December 6 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre.

Beetlejuice s produced by Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Langley Park Productions, Jeffrey Richards, JAM Theatricals, IMG Original Content, Rebecca Gold, Ben Lowy, James L. Nederlander, Warner/Chappell Music Inc., and Zendog Productions in association with DeRoy Federman Productions/42nd.club, Latitude Link, Mary Lu Roffe, Terry Schnuck, Marc Bell & Jeff Hollander, Jane Bergere, Joanna Carson, Darren Deverna & Jere Harris, Mark S. Golub & David S. Golub, The John Gore Organization, Ruth & Steve Hendel, LHC Theatrical Fund, Scott H. Mauro, Networks Presentations, No Guarantees, Gabrielle Palitz, Pierce Friedman Productions, Adrian Salpeter, Iris Smith and Triptyk Studios.

Is Beetlejuice musical closing?

“Beetlejuice,” an exuberantly ghoulish musical that was so on brand it came back from the dead, will end its Broadway run on Jan. 8, the show's producers announced Tuesday.

Is Beetlejuice coming back to Broadway 2022?

BEETLEJUICE returned triumphantly to Broadway with performances on April 8, 2022, at the Marquis Theatre.

Is Beetlejuice still performing?

After closing prematurely at the Winter Garden Theatre due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Beetlejuice musical is being resurrected once more at the Marriott Marquis Theatre in 2022. Get Beetlejuice tickets now.

Will Beetlejuice The Musical be back?

The 2019 Broadway musical Beetlejuice, which was exorcised from Broadway in 2020 only to return at a different theater earlier this year, is giving up the ghost once again. Currently playing at the Marquis Theatre, the production announced today that it will ring down its final curtain on January 8, 2023.