We're Still Hot played its final performance at the Theater at St. Luke's on May 8. Thus the show has closed without Victoria Gotti, expected to begin performances on May 14, ever making her stage debut.
We're Still Hot, directed by Sue Wolf, tells the story of four women in their 50s rediscovering what they loved and hated about each other as they put together a show for their 35th high school reunion. Despite the hot flashes and the mood swings, the show's foursome end up celebrating their changes and gaining a new outlook on life. The musical features a book by J.J. McColl and score by McColl and Rueben Gurr.
The musical, a hit in Canada, opened off-Broadway on February 15. In her Broadway.com Review, Katie Riegel wrote: "McColl takes menopause, 'the most unfunny word in the English language,' and makes it even unfunnier by piling on too many real-life woes for the caricature-like women she has written.... McColl reportedly based her show on real-life women. And though she tries to address life, love, work, family, sex and money--all filtered through the universal lens of getting older, she fails at creating lifelike characters. Her message is not hard to figure out--it's in the title. But hot or not, this town does not need two menopause musicals. It barely needs one."
At the time it closed, the tuner starred The musical also stars Marnee Hollis, Paty Lombard, Jane Seaman and Deborah Jean Templin.
A production spokesperson was unavailable to comment on the closing of We're Still Hot.
