The award-winning Broadway musical Rent will end its 12-year-run in New York this June, according to an announcement on the production’s website.
The musical, composed by Jonathan Larson, chronicles the struggles of a group of young artists in New York.
Rent won a raft of awards following its April 1996 Broadway debut, including a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, four Tony Awards and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical.
Larson never lived to see the success of Rent, dying at age 36 of an undiagnosed heart condition on the eve of its pre-Broadway opening night at the New York Theatre Workshop in January 1996.
A spokesperson for the production was not immediately available to explain why the show was closing.
Ticket sales for Rent had been soft for some time, according to data from the League of American Theatres and Producers. Box-office figures showed it was playing to a little over 50% capacity in recent weeks. — Reuters