The curtain will be falling early on a Broadway play featuring Bill and Hillary Clinton as the lead characters because of poor ticket sales.
The play, “Hillary and Clinton,” which stars Laurie Metcalf as Hillary Clinton and John Lithgow as Bill Clinton, is set to close on June 23, nearly a month before its previously planned close on July 21, according to Hollywood Reporter.
A production by Scott Rudin, it is set in an alternate universe and is based on imagined interactions between Bill and Hillary Clinton in a New Hampshire hotel during the latter’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign.
The play cost $4.2 million to produce, and by the time it ends, it will have had 37 preview and 77 regular performances. Despite the poor performance at the box office, the production earned a Tony nomination for Metcalf’s portrayal of the former secretary of state.
Hillary Clinton ended up losing the 2008 Democratic nomination battle to Barack Obama, who went on to become president. She launched another unsuccessful bid for president in 2016, securing the nomination but losing to President Trump.
