The current broadway production of Disneys The Little Mermaid has set a closing date and that date is Augsust 30th. The musical which opened in 2008 is the 5th movie made musical that disney has put on broadway, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Tarzan, and Mary Poppins have all come before it and at time of closing only 2 will still be running
Thomas Schumacher the president of Disney Theatrical productions and producer of The Little Mermaid gives this for the reason of closing, “We are tremendously proud of the show and are confident we’ll have an excellent summer but it would be fiscally irresponsible to our shareholders to risk operating losses with such a big show in the historically challenging fall months, We are closing the Broadway production to concentrate on the long future life of this title—beginning with next year’s national tour and upcoming international productions”
Funny because they havn’t used that excuse for any of there other shows, The Lunt Fontanne Theatre has served as the theater for Beauty and the Beast and now the Little Mermaid, I think they may also be closing Mermaid to being in a new disney production.
At the time of closing The Little Mermaid will have played 50 previews (wow why so long disney) and 685 performances. Out of the 5 of disney musicals it is the 4th longest running just above Tarzan and just below the current running production of Mary Poppins
