Broadway's 'American Psycho' to close June 5

NEW YORK, May 26 (UPI) -- The Broadway musical American Psycho starring Benjamin Walker is set to close June 5, producers announced Thursday.

Featuring music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik, the stage adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' iconic novel will have played a total of 81 performances at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre by the time its final curtain drops.

The show is set in 1980s Manhattan and follows Patrick Bateman, "a young and handsome Wall Street banker with impeccable taste and unquenchable desires," a synopsis said.

"Patrick and his elite group of friends spend their days in chic restaurants, exclusive clubs and designer labels. But at night, Patrick takes part in a darker indulgence, and his mask of sanity is starting to slip."

"The story is so dense and the music is so good and so much fun, selfishly for us to sing, that it gets into your bones whether you like it or not," Walker told UPI before the show opened this winter. "Because of the book and the movie, in particular, there is something kind of sterile and distant about Patrick Bateman, and I think that's challenging because I want to make him human. Granted, he takes it a bit far, but there is a bit of Patrick Bateman in all of us and that's important, that, by the end, we can understand his frustrations, even if we don't relate to them necessarily. We see the humanity in him and that's important."