On Broadway, It's the Killing Season ; Some Shows Go Out in a Hail of Rotten Tomatoes, Others Get Roses

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The official Broadway year runs from May to May, but there's another recognizable theater period, which begins when the winter holidays end. You can call it the killing season.

That's when many shows that have been faltering at the box office are dispatched. Having nursed them into the tourist-heavy month of December, their producers, facing the cold box offices of January and February, pull the plug.

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On Broadway, It's the Killing Season ; Some Shows Go Out in a Hail of Rotten Tomatoes, Others Get Roses

Among the departures already announced, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," the auto-centric family musical from London, will close Dec. 31 after a disappoint...

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