Sidewalk Fairy Tale Tuner Brooklyn to Close at Schoenfeld on June 26

Brooklyn, the struggling musical at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, will end its run on June 26. At the time it closes, it will have played 28 previews and 282 regular performances.

Brooklyn features a-show-within-a-show in which street singers tell a fairy tale about a young girl searching for fame and the father she never knew.

The musical, directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun, received mostly negative reviews when it opened on Broadway on October 21, 2004. In his Broadway.com Review, Eric Grode wrote: "Someday audiences who saw Brooklyn will be able to boast of seeing Eden Espinosa and Ramona Keller in the show that launched their careers. Those who missed this sight will take comfort in the fact that they were spared the experience of seeing Brooklyn. This misbegotten hybrid of Brecht, story theater, Amelie and American Idol fails so dismally on so many levels that the prevailing impulse is to look away from the stage."

Brooklyn stars Cleavant Derricks, Espinosa, Keller, Karen Olivo and Lee Morgan. Morgan has been on in place of original cast member Kevin Anderson, who left on leave in March and never returned, despite promises from the production that he would.

The show, which has announced a tour, has long been at the bottom end of the Broadway box office. Last week it made just $202,207.