It’s time for an early curtain call.
Kristin Chenoweth’s musical “Queen of Versailles” first began previews on Broadway on Oct. 8 before officially opening two weeks ago. Now, it’s been announced that the show is set to close on Jan. 4.
Despite originally being slated to run through March 29, per tickets on the website, the show was met with scathing reviews.
The New York Times reported that the musical cost around $22.5 million to capitalize.
“The Queen of Versailles” follows the real story of a Florida couple who set out to build the largest home in the United States in 2008. However, financial crisis soon strikes.
The 2012 documentary of the same name recounted the events from the perspective of Florida billionaires David and Jackie Siegel.
In the stage show, David is played by Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham.
Several Broadway vets joined “Queen of Versailles,” including playwright Lindsey Ferrentino and Tony-winning director Michael Arden.
Stephen Schwartz, who penned the score for “Wicked” on Broadway, is also involved.
Chenoweth, 57, starred in “Wicked” as Glinda, opposite Idina Menzel as Elphaba, in 2003.
The Post’s movie critic Johnny Oleksinski wrote, “I hoped the tag team of Chenoweth and Arden would have magic to do. No such luck. The actress is a theatrical force, as everybody knows, but Simone Biles can’t do a back handspring on a toothpick, either.”
He added, “With skin-deep material to work with, Chenoweth transparently leans into broad yuks like she’s serving donuts for dinner. If only her long-anticipated return could be returned.”
Entertainment Weekly’s Dalton Ross stated in his review that “the songs are just one of many problems plaguing an identity crisis of a show that doesn’t quite seem to know what it wants to be.”
But according to the New York Times, they found the musical to be “an entertaining biomusical with a hummable score” and called Chenoweth “winsome” and “funny.”
The actress, however, is no stranger to Broadway.
Chenoweth took home a Tony in 1999 for her work in “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.”
She was also nominated for “Wicked” in 2004 and for “On the Twentieth Century” in 2015.
Along with originating the roles on Broadway, Chenoweth and Menzel, 54, appeared in part one of Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked,” which hit theaters last November.
The stars played members of the singing troupe Wizomania Choir that Glinda (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) encounter while at Shiz University.
Grande, 32, gushed to People at the time that “it was just such a surreal honor” to film with the icons.
“To be coming up with bits together with them and to watch them sing and to do their shtick [was an] out-of-body experience, truly,” she added.
Chenoweth and Menzel didn’t have a cameo in part two, “Wicked: For Good,” which came out on November 21.
The film landed in first place during its box office debut on Friday, earning $68.68 million, per The Numbers.
According to The Post, part two is “an emotional and elongated version of the Broadway musical’s second act.”
And Chenoweth was more than happy to pass her wand along.
“Idina and I feel really good about it. It’s their time,” she told Extra in June. “We had our moment and we were very honored they included us, but it’s their turn.”
“I think we kind of did our thing and passed the broom and wand, so to speak,” Chenoweth reiterated to The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month. “But I can’t wait to see it. I kind of know a lot about it from my girl [Grande], so I just can’t wait.”
During the interview, the “Stumble” actress addressed rumors she and Menzel didn’t get along on Broadway.
“We are so different in the way we do our process that of course rumors are going to fly, right?” she explained. “She and I, only we know what we went through to get to where we were.”
Chenoweth described her relationship with Menzel as that of “siblings.”
“We would die for each other,” she expressed. “So it’s like sisters. Are sisters always perfect? So it’s family. That’s the best way I can describe it.”
Despite “Queen of Versailles” taking its final bow sooner than later, fans can still catch Chenoweth in the NBC cheer comedy “Stumble” alongside Jenn Lyon and Taran Killam. The show currently airs Fridays.
