The Latest Boop News

This Sunday's matinee performance of Boop! The Musical is its last, at least on Broadway. The folks behind the show have dropped some online hints that this is not the end. Assuming they're not bluffing, this could mean several things — the release of a "proshot" video, a national tour or (least likely) moving the show to some off-Broadway house in New York. It could also mean they're dickering for one of those but the deal may never close and this will indeed be the end. Your guess, as it usually is, is at least as good as mine and probably better.

As sometimes happens when it's announced that a show is closing, seats for the remaining performances were quickly snarfed up by people who hadn't gotten around to seeing it but also by many who had. One lady on Facebook was pleading for a ticket somewhere because she'd only seen it eight times. That suggests the folks behind Ms. Boop's stage turn did something right. A friend of mine who knows mucho about the biz side of Broadway suggests their big mistake was opening in the wrong season. He cited a few recent years in which, he theorizes, the show would have done much better at the box office and maybe even the Tony Awards.

So what is in store for it? Like I said, I dunno. I just hope that somewhere/sometime, I can see a production of it with the original staging, the original costumes and sets and — most of all — the original Boop.