Last Sunday marked the final performances of three musicals on Broadway. The acclaimed revival of "110 in the Shade" closed as scheduled, leaving leading lady and four-time Tony winner Audra McDonald free to fly west to join the cast of the "Grey's Anatomy" spin-off "Private Practice." And "Beauty and the Beast," the legit version of the first animated film nominated for the best picture Oscar, ended after a lucky 13 years, making it the sixth longest running show on the Rialto.

Then there was the surprise shuttering of "Grey Gardens," only seven weeks after Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson both won Tonys for playing the eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy who lived in squalor in the tony Hamptons. When Wilson had announced in late June she was leaving as planned at the end of July, theater insiders expected her role to be recast. But the show proved to be a hard sell to the tourists who fill theater seats in the summer months. Leading lady Ebersole is still hoping to transfer the tuner to the West End in the coming months.