Not a major spotlight, mind you, but a spotlight nonetheless - and an accurate one.
Wormwood deals with the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of the CIA's Frank Olson, a bacteriologist and biological warfare scientist who was given LSD without his knowledge during a training seminar. Following the incident his life spiraled out of control and he was dead within 10 days. A cover-up characterized his death as a suicide, and his family spent decades trying to determine what actually happened to him.
Anyway, soon after the LSD incident, Olson was taken to New York (by concerned CIA colleagues) to see a specialist. During their time there, they see Me and Juliet on Broadway. Frank suffers a meltdown while watching the performance and is forced to leave the theater at intermission. And all of this actually happened to him in 1953.
During the show's Me and Juliet sequence, viewers will see Kelli Barrett (as Jeanie) singing "No Other Love." Jarrod Spector shares the stage with her. |
