Here Lies Love — a disco musical created by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim about the life of former Filipino first lady Imelda Marcos — will close on Broadway on November 26, the show’s producers announced this morning (November 7).
An ambitious, $22 million affair, the production took over Manhattan’s Broadway Theatre, renovating the space to accommodate spinning stages and a state-of-the-art audio system that created a club atmosphere.
The show’s 150th and final public performance on Broadway is scheduled to take place November 26. The Broadway Theatre’s production of Here Lies Love opened to the public on July 20 after nearly a month of previews and a decade of on-and-off productions across the country (the first being an off-Broadway stint at New York’s Public Theater).
The play puts an unconventional spin on Marcos’ story — one involving corruption and oppression at the highest level during the dictatorial reign of her husband, Ferdinand Marcos.
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