'Stick Fly' to seal

Broadway play "Stick Fly," that has not handled to remain with Broadway auds, will shutter later this month. New follow Lydia R. Gem acquired lukewarm-to-reviews which are positive, but despite a cast of identifiable faces together with a creating assist from Alicia Secrets, the expansion shown unable to sustain B.O. in the Broadway season that has created around be abnormally crowded with new plays. Since the show began previews November. 20, weekly B.O. has only rare assigned $300,000. In recent days, weekly attendance has hovered in all the different 60%. Dule Hill, Mekhi Pfifer, Tracie Thomas, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Rosie Benton and Condola Rashad star in the staging helmed by Kenny Leon, whose Rialto output of Samuel L. Jackson-Angela Bassett topliner "The Mountaintop" made an appearance its run lately. "Stick Fly," of a well-to-do Black family trading a weekend at their summer season home in Martha's Vineyard, needed a circuitous road to Broadway, bowing in Chicago in 2006. The title ongoing being frequently produced at U.S. regionals in urban centers including L.A. and Princeton right before a Leon-helmed co-production from Boston's Huntington Theater and D.C.'s Arena Stage. Broadway version of the co-production evolves from the creating team including Nelle Nugent, Secrets, Samuel Nappi, Reuben Cannon, Charles Salameno as well as the Huntington, among others. "Stick Fly" shuts Feb. 26 within the Cort Theater. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com