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After 17,216 performances, 6.5 million visitors and several gargantuan hats, the San Francisco "Beach Blanket Babylon" ends its race.
The wacky show, which has been around since 1974 and claims to be the oldest music magazine in the world, will be playing its last performances on New Year's Eve, the producer announced on Wednesday.
"I thought the time was right – after 45 years, it was the right time to close," said producer Jo Schuman Silver. "It's better for us to win than to drag that."
The show pun-and-sight-gag-scavenged has a very fine plot – Snow White, in search of love, wanders the world to meet famous people who sing parodies of pop songs, often about politics and celebrity. He became a staple of San Francisco, renowned for his spectacularly sculptural headgear. (A San Francisco skyline hat measures 14 feet tall, nine feet wide and weighs over 250 pounds.) It was played for a parade of Notables, from Liza Minnelli to Queen Elizabeth II.
"If 'Seinfeld' was about nothing, that's about it," Michael Janofsky wrote in the New York Times in 1998, "a wild musical tribute to popular culture that is now part of San Francisco, in the image of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Coit Tower and the fog."
The show, presented for years at Club Fugazi in the North Beach district of San Francisco, was created by Steve Silver and is constantly updated. Mr. Silver died of AIDS in 1995; Mrs. Silver is his widow.
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