LoveMusik: plays final performance on Broadway

The Manhattan Theatre Club's production of LoveMusik, play its final performance at the Biltmore Theatre on 24 Jun 2007.The show played 61 regurlar performances and 24 previews.

The musical opened at the Biltmore Theatre on 3 May 2007, following previews from 12 Apr, for a run that was originally to end on 17 Jun 2007, but was extended to 24 Jun 2007.

The musical opened to mixed, but mostly favourble, reviews: "Sluggish, tedious and (hold your breath) unmissable." (New York Times); "Moody, daring and downright bewildering."(New York Daily News); "The show is just a small dud." (Journal News); "If you're looking for a musical that leaves its recent and current competition miles, if not light years, behind, 'LoveMusik' is it." (Bloomberg); "The promising opening ... peters out at the end. But ... the performances by Tony winners Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy make it all worthwhile." (NewYorkTheatreGuide.com).

The musical was nominated for four Tony Awards, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Michael Cerveris), Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Donna Murphy), Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (David Pittu) and Best Orchestrations (Jonathan Tunick).

LoveMusik charts the love story of Kurt Weill and his love, wife and muse, Lotte Lenya.

The musical, directed by Harold Prince, starred Michael Cerveris as Kurt Weill and Donna Murphy as Lotte Lenya, and also featured David Pittu as Bertolt Brecht and John Scherer as George Davis. Completeing the cast is Judith Blazer, Edwin Cahill, Herndon Lackey, Erik Liberman, Ann Morrison, Graham Rowat, Rachel Ulanet and Jessica Wright.

LoveMusik features the music of Kurt Weil and has a book by Alfred Uhry who has won two Tony Awards - Best Book of a Musical for Parade (1999) and Best Play for The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997). He won the Pulitzer award for Drama in 1988 for his play Driving Miss Daisy.

The musical featured set design by Beowulf Boritt, with costumes by Judith Dolan, lighting by Howell Binkley and sound by Duncan Edwards.