Johnny Cash Revue Ring of Fire to Close on Broadway April 30

Ring of Fire will play its final performance at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre on April 30. The Johnny Cash musical, directed by Richard Maltby Jr., will have played 37 previews and 57 regular performances at the time of its closing.

Through words and music, Ring of Fire brings to life the stories made famous in Johnny Cash's songs, which are about love, faith, struggle, success, rowdiness and redemption. A company of 14 singers perform 38 of the music legend's tunes, including "Country Boy," "A Thing Called Love," "Five Feet High and Rising," "Daddy Sang Bass," "Ring of Fire," "I Walk the Line," "I've Been Everywhere," "The Man in Black" and "Hurt."

Ring of Fire was created by Maltby Jr. and William Meade. The cast includes Jeb Brown, Jason Edwards, Jarrod Emick, Beth Malone, Cass Morgan, Lari White, David M. Lutken, Randy Redd, Eric Anthony, Laurie Canaan, Dan Immel, Ron Krasinski, Jeff Lisenby and Brent Moyer.

The tuner opened on March 12 to mixed to negative reviews. In his Broadway.com Review of the show, William Stevenson wrote, "The new Johnny Cash musical Ring of Fire boasts toe-tapping songs, an accomplished director in Richard Maltby Jr. Ain't Misbehavin', Fosse and a company of talented singers and musicians. But only country-music diehards are likely to have a good time at this uninspired revue. Most city slickers won't find it nearly as enjoyable or enlightening as the recent Cash biopic Walk the Line."