Last Sunday was the final performance of 'CATS', Broadway's longest running musical. It racked up a record 7,485 performances.
Usually, when a musical ends its run, the production company assists the newly out-of-work actors and actresses in finding other jobs, filing for unemployment benefits, etc.
In this case, the actors were just stuffed into a gigantic burlap bag, weighed down with rocks, and thrown from a bridge into the East River.