We are so sad to hear this! Though it was named the
We are so sad to hear this!
Though it was named the #1 new American play of 2011 by Time magazine, it has been announced that “Chinglish” will end its Broadway run on Sunday, January 29 after 128 performances.
“Chinglish” began premieres at the Longacre Theatre on October 11 of last year and held its official opening on October 27. Since that time, it has consistently struggled to attract ticket-buyers, never bringing in more than $400,000 over a one week period. The Chicago Tribune reports that, other than during the busy holiday season, the play has played to less than 40 percent capacity over the past month.
The comedy tells the story of an American businessman eager to launch a new endeavor in China, and the confusion that ensues because of, among other things, the cultural barrier he can’t seem to cross. To make it worse, he finds himself falling in love with a woman he meets in China – a woman that he can’t have.
Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang wrote the play. He is perhaps best known otherwise for his play “M. Butterfly,” a 1988 play that stared John Lithgow, Anthony Hopkins and Tony Randall during its Broadway run. When Hwang won the Tony Award for Best Play, he became the first Asian-American playwright to do so.
“Chinglish” was first performed from June to July of last year at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and was quickly moved to Broadway. Leigh Silverman was the director of both the Chicago and Broadway productions.
Even highly successful people have failures!
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