Only 18 Broadway shows have ever run for seven years or longer, including two current hits, "The Lion King" (nearly 14 years) and "Wicked" (nearly eight years).
While real-life juvenile delinquency is depressing in the extreme, there is an undeniable frisson generated by the fictional juxtaposition of innocence and evil – of boys and girls gone bad and youths wicked beyond their years.
"I'd love to work with them – they're wicked," the 20-year-old Derby actress tells me, just as she did last time we met, on the set of Misfits – E4's Bafta-winning fantasy about a bunch of kids on community service who develop super-powers (Heroes meets Skins was always going to be a useful handle).
But this week, facing adultery charges in court, he stepped down as archbishop of Zimbabwe's second largest city, denouncing the "crude machinations of a wicked regime .The 60-year-old explained his decision as a move to protect his fellow bishops and the Catholic church.
That same year, her wicked characterization as selfish concert pianist Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941) earned Astor an Oscar for best supporting actress.
Here are some other areas where taxpayers may face tax-law changes for 2011, or where they may need to remember some money-saving tips: NATURAL DISASTERS Last year was a year of wicked weather, from the tornado that laid waste to much of Joplin, Mo., in May, to Hurricane Irene on the East Coast in late August.
The 10-year-old "Wicked" has produced 3.
Another Brown-era cabinet member, Hazel Blears, described the New Labour years as "wicked and malicious".
Many of Lozano's Pop-inspired color-pencil drawings from these years were wicked sendups of phallic aggression.
Most of us would have poisoned our wicked stepmother and stepsisters years before the ball (and been acquitted for doing so).
