To preadolescents? Really?
Ia a review for the Broadway version of Finding Neverland (an offer to buy tickets for which just landed in my inbox, prompting the search for reviews), Ben Brantley of the NT Times says:
In the script, a theatrical producer, Charles Frohman (the valuable Michael McGrath), is alarmed when he hears that Barrie, his star playwright, is working on a children’s fantasy. Children, Frohman says, do not buy tickets.Wicked? Pitched to preadoslecents? Really?
But oh, Mr. Frohman, children have acquired a bit more power since the Victorian era. If you could time-travel to Broadway today, you would see that some of its healthiest, longest-running hits are pitched to preadolescents: “Wicked,” “Matilda” and Disney’s “Aladdin” and the all-mighty “The Lion King.”
Because that list sounds like a round of "One of these things is not like the others" to me.
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