Is ‘Margaritaville’ Wasting Away on Broadway?

The musical based on the tropical-minded catalog of singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, isn’t drumming up booming box-office business

When it began running on Broadway in February, “Escape to Margaritaville” garnered attention for the long lines it generated at the bar—so much so that the theater didn’t have enough booze on hand to keep the margaritas flowing.

But these days, the show, a jukebox musical based on the tropical-minded catalog of the singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, isn’t proving as popular.

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