??? I reproduced the IBDb list of Merrick's Broadway productions myself, in the post you're responding to here. I'm fully aware of what Merrick produced, and it's that awareness that fueled my original comment. As I've said repeatedly now, for someone who produced that many shows in that era of Broadway, Merrick did not have an ***extraordinary*** number of dire flops, and many of the Merrick productions that closed quickly were actually pretty good--or so the critics said.
