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| | Curtains for "Aida" - May 05, 2004 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Aida, the musical retelling of Verdi's classic opera written by John and his Lion King cohort Tim Rice, will be closing its doors Sept. 5 after 1,852 performances. |
 | | The show, a story of a Nubian princess, her forbidden love and her backstabbing best friend cavorting in ancient Egypt, had a moderately successful run on Broadway for four and a half years, but producers decided to shutter the project because it wasn't making the kind of cash they had hoped. |
 | | To be fair, Aida had a relatively bumpy start--the production was overhauled several times before it opened, Elton John stormed out of a preview because he thought it stunk, and the show received fairly scathing reviews from New York critics. |
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