Sting unable to save The Last Ship on Broadway

Sting will be going down with his ship.

Producer Jeffrey Seller said on Tuesday that the Grammy Award-winning songwriter's Broadway musical The Last Ship will close when his stint in the show ends on Jan 24 at the Neil Simon Theater.

Sting, who wrote the songs, jumped into the musical in early December, playing a shipyard foreman that had been portrayed by Jimmy Nail. While that improved sales, they didn't skyrocket and the future looked bleak without him.