‘Ghost the Musical’ to Close on Aug. 18

The producers of “Ghost the Musical,” an adaptation of the hit film, announced on Tuesday that the Broadway show will close on Aug. 18 after 39 previews and 136 regular performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.

The closing represents a commercial failure for “Ghost,” which has never come close to cracking $1 million a week in ticket sales. The show’s capitalization is believed to be in the low-to-mid eight figures, and the production will close at a financial loss. (A spokeswoman for the production declined to confirm the capitalization for the show.)

“Ghost,” which was panned by Charles Isherwood of The New York Times as a “thrill-free singing theme-park ride,” may yet have a lucrative afterlife, however, thanks to a national tour set to begin in the fall of 2013 and international productions scheduled for Korea, Germany, Sweden, Hungary and elsewhere. (It is scheduled to close at Piccadilly Theater in London in early October, after a 14-month run.)

And the show’s director, Matthew Warchus, who won a Tony for his work on Yasmina Reza’s 2009 play “God of Carnage,” will get a shot of redemption next spring when “Matilda the Musical,” his Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel, opens on Broadway. That production, praised by The Times’s Ben Brantley in January as “the fattest, sassiest hit” of the London season, won a record seven Olivier awards.