Broadway's 'Death Becomes Her' Closing June 28 After Failing to Recoup $31.5M

The Tony-nominated musical was one of last season's strongest box-office performers, but the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre marquee goes dark next month with investors still in the red.

Death Becomes Her will play its final Broadway performance on June 28, 2026.
The show was capitalized at $31.5 million and will close without recouping that investment.
Despite the loss, the production was among the top box-office performers of the 2024–2025 Broadway season.
The musical received Tony Award nominations during its run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
The closing adds to a broader pattern of high-capitalization Broadway shows struggling to break even in the post-pandemic era.

It ran through a Tony season, drew the kind of Saturday-night crowds that publicists photograph, and still couldn't make the math work. Death Becomes Her, the stage musical adaptation of the 1992 black-comedy film, will play its final performance at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on June 28, closing without returning its $31.5 million capitalization to investors.

The show was, by most measures, a commercial success in the room. Industry tracking placed it among the stronger box-office performers of the 2024–2025 Broadway season — a season that had no shortage of competition — and it picked up Tony nominations along the way. None of that, it turns out, was enough. Recouping on Broadway requires a very specific kind of relentless, and $31.5 million is a number that demands a long run and premium pricing working in concert.

The show's closing is the kind of story Broadway insiders quietly brace for when a production comes in capitalized north of $30 million. The math on that scale requires not just sold tickets but sold-out houses, week after week, at top-of-market prices. Strong notices and a trophy shelf get you in the conversation; they don’t guarantee the spreadsheet.

The Lunt-Fontanne, one of Midtown's larger houses, will go dark for the production at month's end. No successor booking has been announced at this writing. For the investors who backed the show, the closing confirms what Deadline reported this week: a significant portion of that $31.5 million will not be coming home. For audiences, June 28 is the last call.