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Actors and comedians dominate Wicked the Musical's nearest audiences — not other musicals. Across the top 10 neighbors, only Newsies the Musical (0.72) shares the same subcategory, while the remaining nine span actors, comedians, a fictional character, a director, and a podcast.
The shape is broad: scores run from Idina Menzel at 0.78 down to How Did This Get Made? at 0.72, with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest. Actors make up the largest subcategory bloc — David Harbour (0.76), Phillipa Soo (0.75), and Daveed Diggs (0.74) are the strongest among them — but comedians are nearly as present, with Anthony Jeselnik (0.75), The Lonely Island (0.73), and others clustered just below. Kermit the Frog (0.74) and director Rian Johnson (0.72) round out a neighbor set that reads less like a theater audience and more like a broad pop-culture one. The presence of How Did This Get Made? — a podcast built around affectionately mocking bad films — alongside Menzel and Soo suggests the audience bridges theatrical fandom and irony-forward entertainment consumption.
The overall picture is an audience with wide cultural range, drawn to performance and wit across multiple formats rather than anchored to a single genre or medium.
