Broadway show about the Clintons to close early due to low ticket sales

Washington Examiner ^ | 6/17/2019 | Zachary Halaschak

[simpson96]

The curtain will be falling early on a Broadway play featuring Bill and Hillary Clinton as the lead characters because of poor ticket sales.

The play, “Hillary and Clinton,” which stars Laurie Metcalf as Hillary Clinton and John Lithgow as Bill Clinton, is set to close on June 23 — nearly a month before its previously planned close on July 21, according to Hollywood Reporter.

A production by Scott Rudin, it is set in an alternate universe and is based on imagined interactions between Bill and Hillary Clinton in a New Hampshire hotel during the latter’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign.

The play cost $4.2 million to produce, and by the time it ends, will have had 37 preview and 77 regular performances. Despite the poor performance at the box office, the production earned a Tony nomination for Metcalf’s portrayal of the former secretary of state.

[simpson96]

[DIRTYSECRET]

Bummer. If only I had a chance to see it!

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Despite the poor performance at the box office, the production earned a Tony nomination for Metcalf’s portrayal of the former secretary of state.

Completely predictable. Liberals are always giving themselves awards, even for abject failure.

[SERKIT]

Hillary and Clinton

I thought her middle name was Rodman, not "and"......

[simpson96]

“The play cost $4.2 million to produce, and by the time it ends, will have had 37 preview and 77 regular performances.”

A cost of about $36,842 per show.

Very doubtful they made that up in ticket sales.

[ETL]

[Magnum44]

The play cost $4.2 million to produce

[dfwgator]

This is the play Bialystock & Bloom should have produced.

[dowcaet]

John Lithgow as Bill Clinton?

[laplata]

Hopefully the Clintons had their filthy hands in whatever profits were expected.

[faithhopecharity]

why did the producers ever think anyone would want to see such a show, in the first place?
while Billy had a certain appeal to some, HilLIARy had none whatsoever

[simpson96]

Answer: Liberalism is a mental disorder.

[red-dawg]

[JonPreston]

Hillary and Clinton, with Bill appropriately sans pants.

[MortMan]

I’ve always wondered how someone who asserts she can’t remember anything at all can write multiple memoirs.

[ETL]

[miss marmelstein]

Those are not Hillary’s thighs.

[MamaB]

I was wondering that, too. Why did they do something like that?

[JonPreston]

LOL!