SOS: Jack Plotnick & Seth Rudetsky's Disaster! Sets Early Closing Date on Broadway

Red alert! After a lack of Tony love, Disaster!, starring Roger Bart (and currently Will Swenson), Kerry Butler, Adam Pascal and more, is set to shutter on May 8 at the Nederlander Theatre; it had been scheduled to run through July 3. At time of closing, the musical comedy, based on cult favorite disaster movies from the 1970s, will have played 32 previews and 72 regular performances. The production officially opened on March 8.

Directed and co-written by Jack Plotnick and also starring co-creator and co-writer Seth Rudetsky, Disaster! is set on a summer night in Manhattan in 1979 and follows a group of NYC A-listers who party at the grand opening of a floating casino/disco—until disaster strikes. Earthquakes, tidal waves, infernos, killer bees, rats, sharks and piranhas all threaten the guests, who sing some of the biggest hits of the ‘70s, including “Hot Stuff,” “I Am Woman,” “Knock on Wood” and more.

The cast additionally includes Tony nominee Jennifer Simard, Kevin Chamberlin, Faith Prince, Rachel York, Max Crumm and Lacretta Nicole, Manoel Felciano Baylee Littrell, Paul Castree, Casey Garvin, Travis Kent, Alyse Alan Louis, Maggie McDowell, Olivia Phillip and Catherine Ricafort.

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