That’s Life: ‘Come Fly Away’ to Close - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

“Come Fly Away,” the Broadway musical that married the choreography of Twyla Tharp with the music of Frank Sinatra, announced it will close at the Marquis Theater on Sunday, Sept. 5. The show will have played 26 previews and 187 regular performances. A national tour is scheduled to open in Chicago next March.

The show’s grosses climbed after it opened in March, hitting a peak of $918,318 in the final week of April. But they have declined steadily since then. Last week the show grossed $574,485 and sold about half of the 1,611 seats in the Marquis.

The musical received mostly positive reviews when it opened, with Charles Isherwood hailing it in his review as “a major new work of pop dance theater.” Ms. Tharp was nominated for a Tony for her choreography, but the award was given to Bill T. Jones, the choreographer of “Fela!”

Earlier this year Mr. Isherwood and Alastair Macaulay, the Times’s chief dance critic, engaged in an online dialogue about the merits of the show.

“Come Fly Away” is Ms. Tharp’s third all-dance Broadway musical. “Movin’ Out,” set to the music of Billy Joel, was a smash hit and ran 1,303 performances on Broadway. The Bob Dylan-themed “The Times They Are A-Changin’ ” closed after a bout of scathing reviews and 28 performances.

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