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Dateline: 16th January, 2004 Broadway Taboo to Close The Broadway production of Boy George's 80s New Romantics musical Taboo is to close on 8th February with losses of around $10m. According to the League of American Theatres and Producers, the show costs $500,000 a week and has taken just $280,000 since it opened. It will have played 100 performances. The show is financed by comedienne and chat-show hostess Rosie O’Donnell, who was the one to decide to close the show. According to reports, there were artistic differences between Boy George and O'Donnell and she is said to have been a "permanent fixture" at rehearsals, "running roughshod over her production team." According to the New York Post theatre critic Michael Riedel, "One source called her emasculating." The show had been rewritten for a New York audience but was a critical disaster, altough the score was generally liked. It has played to half-empty houses since the opening and so, although O'Donnell had originally said that she would keep it running until the spring, the losses have grown to such an extent that her financial advisers recommended she pull out as soon as possible. In spite of the losses, she called it "the most fulfilling experience of my career." The UK production, however, continues to play to packed houses on a national tour: it is currently at the Lowry Salford Quays, where it is playing until tomorrow. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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