Word: girls
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...sorts of awards for Jennifer Hudson, and Lord knows it's got zazz. But Bill Condon's movie about a Supremes-like girl group lacks the thrill and threat of the 1981 Broadway musical sensation on which it was based. The picture has a second-half sag, maybe because it added so many new songs and story lines to accommodate all its stars. Nice try, guys; near miss...
...girl appeal, however, is something of a sore subject for the producers of Wicked. They commissioned an audience survey that found the demographic breakdown of people who see Wicked is in line with that of most Broadway shows: more of its audience is over 35 than under 35. "Yes, girls come. They're enthusiastic. They're at the stage door," says David Stone, one of the show's producers. "But they're not all that's coming...
...Musical, based on the 2001 movie starring Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, a bubbleheaded campus queen who goes to Harvard Law School and proves she can hold her own with the eggheads. Perky, pretty in pink and packaged with the requisite mix of campy condescension and you-go-girl inspiration, the show looks poised to become Broadway's next hit. If so, it will largely be thanks to the theater's hot audience of the moment: tween and teen girls...
...Wicked has tapped into a theme that seems to crop up in a lot of Broadway shows these days: stories of misfits or underdogs who prove their worth in spite of the odds. Hairspray revolves around a zaftig high school dance whiz who fights for racial integration and fat-girl power in 1962 Baltimore. The Color Purple, the Oprah-produced musicalization of Alice Walker's novel, is the uplifting story of an African-American girl's journey from abused teen to empowered adult. The action hero of the new musical The Pirate Queen is a female fighter for Irish independence...
...course, Broadway musicals, from The King and I to Annie, have long been partial to girl-centered stories. More than 62% of the Broadway audience is made up of women, and they tend to make the decisions about what the whole family sees. And while shows like The Lion King may be fine for the littlest theatergoers, older girls tend to prefer hipper role models--like Elle and Elphaba...