Katie Holmes Broadway play “Dead Accounts” is dead in the water.
The show — by “Smash” creator Theresa Rebeck — opened last month and will shut Jan. 6, after just 44 regular performances. Reports said the show’s bringing down the final curtain a full seven weeks ahead of schedule.
“I am extremely proud of this production and the cast… we are all sad to see ‘Dead Accounts’ end on Broadway,” producer Jeffrey Finn told theater Web site Broadwayworld. “I look forward to working with this remarkably talented cast and creative team again very soon.”
Co-starring Norbert Leo Butz, the play opened Nov. 29 to mixed reviews, and reports say the show’s closure is due to poor ticket sales.
The Post’s theater critic Elisabeth Vincentelli said of Holmes’ performance: “She’s got one note — shrill, impatient — and yells it at top volume, making a vein bulge on her slender neck,“ and, “with its cardboard characters and implausible developments, ‘Dead Accounts’ feels like a rough first draft.”
The show was touted as a comeback for Holmes after her high-profile, bombshell divorce from Tom Cruise earlier in the year. But, it seems, her star power wasn’t enough to overcome critics’ disdain and keep ticket sales at the Music Box Theatre going.