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Musical about Oscar Wilde closes after one performance

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20041022
Author:JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer

JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
10-22-2004
Dateline: LONDON
Like the career of its subject, London's latest musical began in a blaze of publicity, set tongues wagging and ended, prematurely, in disgrace.

"Oscar Wilde: The Musical" opened Tuesday at the 500-seat Shaw Theatre. It closed the next day after receiving excoriating reviews and selling just five tickets for its second performance.

Written, produced and directed by Mike Read, a radio DJ whose fame peaked in the 1980s, "Oscar Wilde" set out, according to its publicity material, to chart Wilde's "tragic descent from ...

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