Las Vegas Meat Loaf Musical ‘Bat Out of Hell’ Canceled Mid-Run
Bat Out of nether region — The Musical is flutter out of luck. It testament fill up at the Paris Theatre in Las Vegas on Jan. 1, a mere 12 weeks after opening at the locus that was custom-designed for it.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the accompany was notified of the closure Th via an email from coproducers. It explained: “We have got been trying to find a route forward, but the financial realism has left wing us with no more other choice.”
Though the show – starring Travis Cloer, Anne Martinez, Travis Cormier, and Alize Cruz – received positive decisive reviews, its want of commercial success should come up as no more surprisal to those who believe in “the French capital Theatre curse.”
Since 1999, the 1,500-seat venue has hosted several shows that just couldn’t link with audiences. These include Circus 1903, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Inferno, and Marilyn.
The believers on the face of it include coproducer Michael Cohl, who, on Oct. 28, hired a Las Vegas shaman to execute a Native American healing ceremonial ridding the leg of negative spirits.
It didn’t work.
Bat Men
The challenging microscope stage production is a tilt musical composed past songwriter Jim Steinman – who went on to save hits for Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, and Celine Dion. David Barnard Steinman began authorship the musical while attending Amherst College inwards the belatedly ’60s, when he called it The Dream Engine, and it was about a tribe of natural state teens inward a post-apocalyptic metropolis. Joseph Papp, the Public Theater founder, helped David Barnard Steinman gloss its unsmooth edges into a new do work – a enjoy story featuring a Peter Pan-like top theatrical role – the do work was called Neverland.
Neverland fizzled out when the Public Theater was unable to obtain the rights to its Peter genus Pan elements. But it was resurrected when David Barnard Steinman met Meat Loaf, who successfully auditioned for a 1973 Public Theater production of a Vietnam War musical called More Than You Deserve, which Steinman cowrote.
After the brace began collaborating in earnest, Meat Loaf cherry-picked from Neverland’s songs, turning them into striking singles and tracks for his 1977 album, Bat Out of Hell.
“This was meant to live a musical,” Meat Loaf told the New House of York Times in 2019. “I made it a sway show. Jimmy turned it around and made a musical. That’s what he wanted it to be.”
Neither lead survived to see to it it spiel Las Vegas. Steinman died Apr 19, 2021 at age 73. Meat Loaf died Jan. 20, 2022 at eld 74.
Gone, Gone, Gone
Bat Out of pit – The Musical has had its have story of unforesightful stints. It played the Manchester Opera House from Feb. 17 to Apr 29, 2017, followed past the Greater London Coliseum from June 5 to Aug. 22, 2017, Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre from Oct. 14, 2017 to Jan. 7, 2018, London’s Dominion Theatre from Apr 2, 2018 to Jan. 5, 2019, and finally, the New House of York City Center from Aug. 8 to Sept. 8, 2019.
In 2019, just now days before a 19-city Frederick North American circuit of the musical comedy was localize to begin, nearly all the dates were postponed or canceled.
“I was reinforced for disappointment,” David Barnard Steinman told the New House of York Times at the time.
As of 6 p.m. Thursday, Ticketmaster was allay erroneously selling seats for the Paris Theatre show up through and through Mar 31.