X Factor guru Simon Cowell has become the latest big name in show business to suffer an expensive pratfall in London’s West End with the announcement that the musical I Can’t Sing! he co-produced will close after a six-week run.
The demise of the musical parody of the TV talent contest, which reportedly cost 6mil pounds (RM33mil) to produce, comes hard on the heels of the closures of new musicals by long-time West End and Broadway hotshots Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. It also follows the expensive 2012 fiasco of a musical based on the Spice Girls pop band.
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