{"id":312010,"date":"2025-11-25T03:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312010\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T03:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:22:06","slug":"the-queen-of-versailles-to-close-on-broadway-in-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312010\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Queen Of Versailles&#8217; To Close On Broadway In January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-queen-of-versailles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-queen-of-versailles\" data-tag=\"the-queen-of-versailles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Queen of Versailles<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway\" data-tag=\"broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a> musical that is starting just its third week at the St. James Theatre, will play its final performance January 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe show opened November 9 and to date has grossed $5,566,554 from nine performances and 32 previews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tQueen of Versailles\u2018 cast is led by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kristin-chenoweth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kristin-chenoweth\" data-tag=\"kristin-chenoweth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristin Chenoweth<\/a> and F. Murray Abraham, with music and lyrics by Oscar winner\u00a0Stephen Schwartz and a book by Lindsey Ferrentino. Tony winner Michael Arden\u00a0directed. This project reteamed Chenoweth with Schwartz on\u00a0Broadway\u00a0for the first time since\u00a0Wicked\u00a0premiered in 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe story is based on Lauren Greenfield\u2019s 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, which captured the story of Jackie and David Siegel,\u00a0billionaires who were attempting to build a lavish home in Florida inspired by Palace of Versailles while seeing their fortunes and lifestyle decline thanks to the 2008 financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGreenfield won the Directing Award at Sundance for the doc, which grossed nearly $2.5 million in global box office via Magnolia Pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn its pre-Broadway incarnation, the musical Queen of Versailles\u00a0saw record-breaking box office for its world premiere at Boston\u2019s Emerson Colonial Theatre in July 2024 before landing a spot at the St. James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queen of Versailles, the Broadway musical that is starting just its third week at the St. James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[21540,88,102504,160970],"class_list":["post-312010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-broadway","tag-entertainment","tag-kristin-chenoweth","tag-the-queen-of-versailles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}