The $22.5 million Broadway musical “The Queen of Versailles” — starring Kristin Chenoweth and scored by Stephen Schwartz (“Wicked”) — will play its final performance on Jan. 4 at the St. James Theatre. What was supposed to be a high-gloss Broadway blockbuster is shuttering less than three months after opening night.

The musical was adapted from the 2012 documentary film of the same name, which chronicles the attempts of a wealthy Florida couple to build the largest private home in America, only to see the 2008 financial crash upend their dream. Amid sparkling costumes and cartoonish opulence, the show never quite found a tone that held audiences’ attention. Critics and theatergoers alike grumbled that the musical wavered between satire, heartbreak, and empty spectacle.

The fate of “Versa

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