Bob Dylan show to close

A Bob Dylan-inspired Broadway musical is set to close less than a month after its premiere after receiving a critical mauling.

The Times They Are A-changin’ will shut after just 28 performances next week, a spokesman for the show's public relations firm revealed yesterday.

In a New York Times review, theatre critic Ben Brantley called the Bob Dylan show "the latest heart-rending episode in Broadway's own reality soap opera: 'When bad shows happen to great songwriters.’”

The musical was conceived and choreographed by Twyla Tharp, who also transformed Billy Joel's songs into Tony-award winning musical Movin’ Out.