Mark Hammil's stage play comes to an end

-- "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks," a comedy starring Polly Bergen and Mark Hamill, closed Sunday on Broadway after a run of only 30 performances.

Richard Alfieri's play about a retired Florida school teacher and her dance instructor received mostly negative reviews when it opened Oct. 29 at the Belasco Theatre. The Associated Press called the play "innocuous" and said it recalled "wan Broadway comedies of years gone by, shows that inexplicably got to New York and then disappeared quickly." Variety described the show as "a desiccated piece of Florida dinner-theater driftwood."

"Six Dance Lessons" has done meager business since opening, last week grossing only $78,728.99, and filling only 30 percent of the seats at the Belasco

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