Will The Prom flop?

THE PROM has the opportunity to appeal to two very distinct groups of people -- teenagers/young woke people, and fans of splashy Broadway musical comedies. It remains to be seen if the show will be 100% successful in appealing to those groups (I wonder how much work has been done since Atlanta?), but I'm rooting for its success. And they couldn't have a better cast of musical-comedy hams!

You know, proponents of civil rights.

I think if people buy tickets, they'll do OK... and if people don't buy tickets, then they'll have a problem.

I think it will flip first.

I saw it in Atlanta with the same cast and liked a lot about it. It was extremely funny (I won't spoil some of the better gags, but Broadway fans will get a true kick out of it) and the songs and staging were great.... but needed a lot of work-- the opening number, set at a opening night party, was so outdated as to resemble nothing so much as a Carol Burnett Show sketch (and not in a good way). Plus, the depiction of contemporary small-town high school life was ridiculous-- seems as though nobody knew how to use the internet or share information or anything (except, well, when convenient). All the characters seemed to be written circa 1985, yet the show was set 'today' (and requires you to believe in the power of social media in a very Dear Evan Hansen kind of way). These were all very, very fixable things, though-- and the cast was wonderful, many gags landed beautifully and I am looking forward (very much) to seeing it again.

Anyone who needs to use the cliche "woke" is dead to me :)

taylortrensch said: "bk said: "Anyone who needs to use the cliche "woke" is dead to me :)"

i can't imagine getting so worked up over something on the internet. yikes !??"

I can’t inagine not knowing it was tongue in cheek.

I'm so hopeful about it. The cast is terrific, the creative team has turned in good-to-great work on Broadway before, and the story sounds like a delight. In this year of really terrible new musicals so far with not a ton on the horizon that I'm especially excited about, I've got my fingers crossed that this will be the little show that could and ends up being a delight. Time will tell!

I wonder why the OP didn't post: "Will The Prom be a Hit?"

THOUGHTS.

From what I've seen on twitter (gross, I know) a lot of younger theater goers are pretty excited for this. Seems like it could be funny, has good representation of LGBTQ characters. Plus a lot of people more well known/popular with people on Twitter (mean girls cast, ect) are involved or had been involved in this project.