Profile for Mr. Wormwood

I think it sort of depends on the type of theater group and the community. I don't think it's necessarily irresponsible to perform it. But I do think, for many of the reasons you mentioned, that it will fade more and more into obscurity as the years go on. There are former staples of HS & community theater like Lil' Abner, The Pajama Game, Barnum, No No Nanette, etc that have dropped off big time in terms of numbers of productions mounted. I think Annie Get Your Gun has alread

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "As far as "IP" goes, OUTSIDERS hasabout the same level of recognition as BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY andTUCK EVERLASTING. It built word of mouth because it is genuinely good, and it has asellable production: a show that looks expensive and interesting and is really inventive in its direction and choreography. Similar to HADESTOWN and ONCE and AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and MATILDA and SPRING AWAKENING (some of those not comparable by IP name value obv

kdogg36 said: "The Outsiders, with the top average ticket price this week, is succeeding beyond all my expectations, and I love that. What do you think is driving its success compared toKimberly AkimboandA Strange Loop, the two previous Best Musical winners?

I suspect the familiarity of the title has a lot to do with it. In saying that, I don't mean to questionthe show's quality at all, but The Outsiders isvastly outperforming it

I'm a little surprised they didn't hang on a couple more weeks but this summer did prove it's not really a tourist shows and the holiday weeks are big for the tourist & family shows.

I thought Maryann Plunkett and Dorian Harewood were brilliant in this. The rest of the show? Meh. I thought Ingrid Michaelson's individual songs were fine to listen to, but put together they all felt very same-y. I wasn't overly impressed with the other two couples either thoug

dramamama611 said: "Mr. Wormwood said: ". Yikes. It's still summer and doing numbers like that."





For lots of the country, school is already back in session - family vacation always drops off before Labor Day.

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I understand that but it's still the summer season and there are several states including NY still on summer vacation. For it to be already below $900k at a time that shows are inching do

Suffs really is doing pretty well for itself. So many shows are trickling down as fall approaches and it is not. It'll definitely hang on till January. 

I think the worst performance of the week is Back to the Future. Yikes. It's still summer and doing numbers like that. 

Gatsby is showing a little signs of softening. I could see it being a show that starts to trend down quickly at some point but that's just speculation.  Admittedly it's done bette

KevinKlawitter said: "Mr. Wormwood said: "I don't have any insider knowledge but I'm guessing they've been trying to get "a name" to replace Grant and have been unsuccessful thus far. I think closing in Sep is a very real possibility for this show."

Does a show like this really require a "name"? Because with all the respect in the world to the man, whenever I've heard anyone talkabout this show (which, admittedly, is v

I loved loved loved Avenue Q back when I saw it on Broadway around 2006ish. But it definitely has that early 2000s humor that is hard to work with in 2024. It was from the era of "we're an ally so it's OK to make fun of you" type of humor that was seen at the time as progressive at best and harmless at worst.

Perhaps we've overcorrected a tad but that doesn't mean that a product of its time needs to come back. The Office is another example. I'm g