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'High Fidelity' Broadway musical to close
Published Wednesday, Dec 13 2006, 12:01 GMT | By Miriam Zendle
The £50m Broadway musical of Nick Hornby novel High Fidelity is to close after only ten days.
The show opened on December 7, but even then was playing to a half empty venue, and things have not improved, BBC News reports.
New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley said it was in the "roster of all-time most forgettable musicals," while Variety's David Rooney noted: "This bland show is crippled by its failure to convincingly tap the pulse of pop culture or to mine the romantic heartache of its source material."
The show opened on December 7, but even then was playing to a half empty venue, and things have not improved, BBC News reports.
New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley said it was in the "roster of all-time most forgettable musicals," while Variety's David Rooney noted: "This bland show is crippled by its failure to convincingly tap the pulse of pop culture or to mine the romantic heartache of its source material."
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