Profile for Mr. Wormwood

Maybe Happy Ending has the most to gloat about this week IMO. What a great hold in a week where a lot of shows took expected big drops.

I think it is a two person race regardless of what happens the rest of the season. I feel like things are trending slightly towards Audra right now but Nicole is right there too. It's not going to be someone other than those two.

I also think the DBH team is going to try to put Simard in Featured.

I don't believe there's any conspiracy but I do think including Sunset doesn't really work with the rest of his thesis. Every other show mentioned was mixed to negative or straight out panned and Sunset was mostly positive.

Considering nearly every show had a big drop this week, as to be expected, the small drop for Maybe Happy Endings is impressive. Really great ending for Suffs too.

Regardless of whether it was actually safer or not, leaving a Broadway show and casually walking over to the NYE ball drop feels like a simpler, bygone era for sure

I'm sure Elf lost steam after Christmas Day. It'll probably be one of the biggest drops this week which will still be good for most shows.

Wicked is truly insane. Insane.

Very happy for Maybe Happy Endings! And that number for The Outsiders is truly astonishing for a theater that size. Back to the Future is also going out on a huge high.

Kad said: "It’s a real shame that after a triumphant opening and going into what should be one of the most lucrative weeks of the year, this production instead lost a week of performances and likely instilled a lot of uncertainty into ticketbuyers.

Producers really need to start changing their practices regarding coverage."

I feel like this many cancellations happening to a show this big could impact practices going forward...

Nolan LuPone said: "WldKingdomHM said: "This wouldn’t happen if they got Sharon Brown as the standby"

Or Heather Headley…"

I'd LOVE to see Heather Headley in this. Wish she was Audra's Donna Murphy

ACL2006 said: "Mr. Wormwood said: "Elf has been such a gigantic holiday hit. My goodness. And that Wicked number is absurd. Tons of shows are doing good business right now though. That's nice to see.

A Wonderful World is turning into A Beautiful Noise... holiday and tourist times are bad for it. But then it does better in normal weeks."

The difference between the two is that ABN was grossing $1 million a week for its first three months. The grosses for ABN didn't start to tumble regularly until Memorial Day Week(end) 2023. AWW hasn't come close to the grosses ABN put up, though I'd guess that AWW is slightly cheaper to run than ABN.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses/A-BEAUTIFUL-NOISETHE-NEIL-DIAMOND-MUSICAL"

True, I was referring more to how ABN started to do later on. Early on, it was doing very well all weeks. But then it settled into a pattern where it would underperform on tourist/holiday weeks and overperform on other weeks. It was also in a bigger theater than Wonderful World. That being said, I do know WW is on much shakier ground than ABN was for a long time.

Elf has been such a gigantic holiday hit. My goodness. And that Wicked number is absurd. Tons of shows are doing good business right now though. That's nice to see.

A Wonderful World is turning into A Beautiful Noise... holiday and tourist times are bad for it. But then it does better in normal weeks.

I'd be real leery about buying a ticket a few days after opening night for any Broadway shows these days. It feels like almost every show has to cancel a performance due to illness soon after opening due to opening night, parties, etc and then not having the understudies ready to go yet. Kind of a post-Covid reality.

Oh dang. That's amazing that all five are coming back. I wonder if they'd be able to get them to also close out the Broadway run whenever that happens. 

Great week all around. 2024 is definitely ending on a much better note than any year on Broadway post,-Covid. Big end of year hits like Sunset, Gypsy, Death Becomes Her and Elf are all helping as well as pretty solid holds from last years shows and the long-timers. Broadway looks to be in its most healthy place since 2019 heading into the Jan,/Feb doldrums. Hopefully a good sign for those months.

So long to The Notebook. It feels like a lifetime ago that people thought this might be the show to beat, commercially and in the Tonys, last season.

I thought the show dragged for large portions - I like some of the songs individually but put together, I thought Ingrid Michaelson's score was a snooze.

But Maryann Plunkett and Dorian Harewood's performances will stay with me for a long time. They were brilliant.

Is there an explanation for the jump for A Wonderful World or did it just have a good week?

Strong post-holiday week hold for Cabaret. Death Becomes Her and Elf are doing great.

Hooray for Suffs!