"Surf the Musical" Brings the "Beach Boys" Music to a New Generation and Closes a Month into Vegas Run
The allure of a musical set to original tracks of the Beach Boys was too much to bare. I decided to go check out the new show on the Las Vegas Strip which rolled out the red carpet July 17th, 2012. But just as I was getting 'on board' the surf hullabaloo, the show announced it would be closing August 15th, 2012, a month or so after it's official opening. Shucks, now I had to rush. Ticket sales seem to be the bottom-line reason to close, according to the Las Vegas Sun , which reported that the show would be closing early, and that it was never officially endorsed by the Beach Boys. Could the reason for its' closing simply be the lack of endorsement by the Beach Boys themselves like it's predecessor "Good Vibrations" which only ran a short time on Broadway? I surely hope not. A star-studded cast of Broadway & TV performers put their all into this highly modernized production called "Surf the Musical" with its roots in Calif