“Here Lies Love,†the new David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical about Imelda Marcos, which opened on Tuesday at the Public Theater to some of the best reviews of the season, has added four weeks of performances through June 30, the theater announced on Friday. The run of the musical, directed by Tony Award nominee Alex Timbers (“Peter and the Starcatcherâ€), had already been extended twice. The 90-minute production at the Public’s LuEsther Hall has quickly become a tight ticket, in part because the space - in which most audience members stand, move, and occasionally dance during the show - holds only 160 people.
Given the strong reviews, some New York theater producers have been predicting that the Public will run “Here Lies Love†through the summer and then try to move the musical to another, perhaps larger venue. A transfer to Broadway would be trickier, since the show’s 360-degree staging would not fit with the traditional proscenium layout of most Broadway theaters. A spokeswoman for the Public had no comment on the musical’s future beyond the latest extension.
