Based on the book by Colm Toibin, the play was supposed to run for 12 weeks but shut down after only two due to lack of interest.
"The play bombed. That’s why it closed," said Catholic League president Bill Donohue. "Quite frankly, there aren’t enough people who want to spend their evenings watching a dark performance about a fanciful Virgin Mary who rejects the divinity of her son. My only regret is that we don’t have the results of a psychological battery of tests performed on those who like this kind of stuff."
Donohue cites The Irish Times’ Fintan O’Toole who is furious over the play's poor performance and blamed capitalism for its early demise.
“The most basic truth about Broadway is that it’s about money," O'Toole wrote. "It is the raw, ruthless marketplace to which some people would like to reduce all artistic endeavor. It is a primal form of capitalism: enormous risks in pursuit of enormous rewards.”
Donohue scoffs at O'Toole's rant. " . . . (O)ne of the great things about capitalism is that it accurately gauges public sentiment, rewarding what people want, and discarding what they don’t. A market economy, I am happy to say, doesn’t necessarily reward what the elites want. Which is why they hate it."
He concludes with an apology. "Sorry, Toibin. Looks like there aren’t enough O’Tooles out there to enjoy your angry discourse on Catholicism."
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