War Horse to end Broadway run early in 2013
The Broadway run of the striking phase production, “War Horse”, volition cease on Jan 6, it has been announced.
The emotional wartime tale of a boy’s dearest for his Equus caballus has proved a striking as well as has attracted fantabulous reviews, simply attendances had slipped over the northern boundary as well as summer.
The show, at the Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater inwards New York, volition select been staged 718 times, summation 33 previews, when the in conclusion drape falls.
That would arrive the longest-running Tony-winning Best Play of the in conclusion decade. It opened inwards March 2011.
“It has been our cracking accolade as well as pleasance to assist select ‘War Horse’ to Broadway,” said André Bishop, artistic managing director of the Lincoln Center Theater.
“War Horse is that rare play that brings joy to everyone it touches – from the nigh avid theatergoers to children, seeing their commencement Broadway show. There are few theatrical experiences that tin travel categorized equally genuinely magical, as well as everyone at LCT is thrilled to select been a piece of occupation of this one.”
The uplifting phase production is based on the 1983 children’s mass yesteryear Michael Morpurgo. It was adapted for stage, using life-size puppets equally horses.
It has received v Tony Awards, including a particular statue for South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, which developed the Equus caballus puppets.
The mass was too adapted to the large screen, inwards an epic production yesteryear managing director Steven Spielberg.
War Horse tells the storey of the human relationship betwixt a immature British boy, Albert, who befriends as well as trains a horse, Joey. Joey is sold yesteryear Albert’s begetter into armed forces service during World War 1.
Albert does non forget his Equus caballus and, when one-time enough, goes inwards search of his equine friend.
The phase version premiered at the National Theatre inwards London inwards 2007. It moved to the West End inwards March 2009, where it continues to clitoris large audiences.
The closing of the Broadway production volition non while the cease of the demo on American soil. A the US tour began inwards Los Angeles inwards June as well as the demo volition travel seen inwards thirty the US cities.
The phase version is too showing inwards Toronto, Canada, where it is instantly the city’s longest-running professional person drama of all time.
It has been staged to a greater extent than than 230 times since Feb ii this year, as well as the flavor was lately extended until Nov 4.
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