Disney’s Broadway musical The Little Mermaid played its last performance at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on August 30.

Since it began previews November 3, 2007, and opened on January 10, 2008 at the Lunt-Fontanne, it played 50 previews and 685 regular performances.

You can still hear the cast as their voices were preserved on The Little Mermaid original Broadway cast recording.

Thomas Schumacher, producer and president of Disney Theatrical Productions, said this about the show’s close:

We are tremendously proud of the show and are confident we’ll have an excellent summer but it would be fiscally irresponsible to our shareholders to risk operating losses with such a big show in the historically challenging fall months. We are closing the Broadway production to concentrate on the long future life of this title, beginning with next year’s national tour and upcoming international productions.

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