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Hi and welcome to a special breaking news episode of Today on Broadway for Thursday, February 5, 2026. I'm Broadway Video's Matt Simonetti. I am coming to you because today at 5:30pm it was announced that Moulin Rouge the Musical will officially close out its 7 year well in parentheses because of the pandemic run on Broadway this summer, Sunday, July 26, 2026. At the time of its closing, it will have played 2,265 regular performances and 20 it the 36th longest running show in Broadway history. Not sure that's necessarily something that you need to be all that excited about with a 37th show, but the show has recouped, launched national tour that has been running for quite a while and has spawned international productions around the world. It's not my favorite show. In fact, I think it's a pretty bad show. I love the movie, but this just didn't do it for me. I thought it was, I thought it was a show by people who didn't understand the original movie and what made it special. But nonetheless, Moulin Rouge the Musical will officially close, meaning that the Al Hirschfeld Theater will be available for something in the late summer, early fall with a closing date on July 26, potentially that could obviously extend if they wanted to. But what that tells me is that somebody wants to come in maybe late August or begin performances right around or right after Labor Day. That way they can have a leg up on the competition and maybe even get in there and try to kind of become the leader in the clubhouse, so to speak. In terms of the, in terms of the Tony for best musical, obviously the Alherschfeld Theater, a larger theater. It's also a little bit off the beaten track. So it's not one where you want to kind of just throw a show in there that doesn't have some sort of name recognition either in terms of the title or the IP or the stars. So I would imagine that it would be something that people would, would know, but at 1400 seats, it's, it's definitely going to be a musical. We've got everything from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Griswold's Broadway Vacation, Purple Rain, potentially. Evita. Evita could be an interesting one because that area is a little easier probably to cordon off for the outdoor. And I'm pretty sure they've got a balcony out there. Yeah, they do. They have a fire escape balcony right next to the front door. So they could do that. Damn Yankees is still in the, in the running wonder is still in the running. So I think there's a lot of really interesting shows that could take over that theater probably earlier than not. I think Evita would be would make sense. We know I'm gonna talk about this on last week on Broadway coming up this weekend, but Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt are gonna be doing the last five years in New York and in West Los Angeles. Could lead right into Evita. Damn Yankees. It would be smart to do it in the fall because that leads right into the heyday of the baseball season and into the postseason. That could be a really smart way to tie into the real world, especially if the Yankees are doing pretty well, which I assume they would. So it should be interesting. We have our latest casualty. Not going to impact the 2025, 2026 season, but it will dramatically play in a role in terms of what the 2026, 2027 season looks like. All right, everybody, that's all that I have for you today. Thank you for listening. Broadway Radio. If you want more Broadway Radio, head over to patreon.com broadwayradio thanks for listening. This has been Matt Tamani and I'll talk to you soon.