The Las Vegas production of The Producers will close February 9 of '08, which is one year after it opened and probably way sooner than its backers expected. It would be nice if the lesson learned from this was that if you're going to do a hit Broadway show, do the show that was a hit on Broadway, not a 90-minute cutdown version. But that's not what the folks who mount Vegas shows will think. They'll say it proves there's no market for theater in their city.