{"id":237403,"date":"2026-05-19T23:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237403\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:13:10","slug":"beaches-to-close-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237403\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beaches\u2019 to close on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/46037-beaches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beaches<\/a> on Broadway will end its run at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/venues\/majestic-theatre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Majestic Theatre<\/a> this Sunday, May 24. At the time of closing, it will have played 66 total performances.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/theatre-news\/interviews\/at-82-beaches-writer-iris-rainer-dart-appreciates-every-bit-of-her-career\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iris Rainer Dart<\/a>\u2019s 1985 novel and the 1988 film adaptation, Beaches follows an unlikely lifetime of friendship between brassy performer Cee Cee and refined lawyer Bertie. On Broadway, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/jessica-vosk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Vosk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/kelli-barrett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelli Barrett<\/a> play the roles originated by Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey on screen.<\/p>\n<p>The musical is also led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/ben-jacoby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Jacoby<\/a> as Michael Barron and others, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/brent-thiessen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Thiessen<\/a> as John Perry and others, Samantha Schwartz as Little Cee Cee, and Zeya Grace as Little Bertie.<\/p>\n<p>Dart adapted her novel for the stage show with Thom Thomas, and developed it in collaboration with David Austin. The score is by Mike Stoller (music) and Dart (lyrics), and Lonny Price and Matt Cowart co-direct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/theatre-news\/news\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-beaches-on-broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about Beaches on Broadway.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/46037-beaches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beaches tickets<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Beaches on Broadway. (Photo by Marc J. Franklin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beaches on Broadway will end its run at the Majestic Theatre this Sunday, May 24. At the time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-237403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}