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The answer is blindingly obvious. TURN OFF YOUR PHONE for a couple of hours. The world will not end. Sit back and enjoy the show. Forget about everything else.Stop distracting those of us who have come to watch the show.

Saw this the last week in June. Fairly well attended but it was a big disappointment. Expected much more from it. The score was too much like The Full Monty and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In a way it was unnecessary. Turning it into a musical added nothing. Changing the setting from a daytime Tv soap to a Broadway musical created a basic flaw in the plot. In the film Dorothy becomes popular with the TV audience because the show is live and she goes off script. In the musical no audience has yet...

The show that is really struggling at the moment is Frozen. Although its position is disguised by the advance sale and all those people who bought tickets hoping to resell them at greatly inflated prices. Lots of seats are still available at the box office and most performances are awash with seats for resale. For a show of this scale seats should be like gold dust. A lot of people have got badly burned buying extra seats they are now having difficulty selling. This show should have been sold...

There is no question that Sheridan Smith has the talent to appear on Broadway. She is a genuine all rounder. She can do comedy, drama and as she proved with Funny Girl she can give Barbra a run for her money. The problem is that at the moment, for whatever reason, her personal life is a bit of a mess and this has caused her stage appearances to be unreliable. For that reason she may find producers are unwilling to hire her for long term stage projects. Audiences want to feel comfortable watch...

For goodness sake everybody get (a) a life (b) a sense of proportion and (c) some common sense.

Saw the show live at the Olivier three weeks ago and in the cinema last night. Both work well. What you lose in atmosphere not being in the theatre you gain with the intimacy of the cinema version. Also saw details I missed live. Loveland set on screen looks much better than it does in the theatre. Most cast very good except Solange who was awful both times. Imelda Staunton was heartbreaking as Sally. Both In Buddy's Eyes and Losing My Mind were terrific. Glad to see they had replaced the dra...

It's taken a little while for the advance to run out but takings suddenly seem to be dropping alarmingly. How much longer has the show got to run?

So looking forward to this show at the end of June but sad to be missing Bette. The only week I can see it and Bette is out. But I am sure Donna Murphy will be a splendid substitute.

The problem with actor / singers rather than singer / actors is they can be cruelly exposed without the technical tweaking on film. Les Miserables worked well as a film but just listen to the CD and a lot of the voices are horribly thin. The same with Emma Stone - when you can only hear her on the CD rather than see her on film she is very underwhelming. By all means let her be in a play but not a musical.

They weren't the scalpers themselves but people buying on their behalf. There were about seven people in the queue as well as ourselves and they just kept rejoining the queue. They were buying for different dates and didn't seem to be disguising what they were doing.

Bought tickets for DEH at the box office last week and was surprised that a team of buyers was lining up to buy tickets and then immediately rejoining the queue to buy more. They had lists of ticket requirements and had obviously been given the money with which to buy the tickets. They seemed to be being controlled by an organised group and they were obviously not buying the tickets for themselves. The same thing also seemed to be happening at the Shubert with tickets for Hello Dolly. The box...

How on earth can a two character play need two extra weeks of previews. It's taking a fortune on the strength of Pacino's name why not just open. If it gets terrible reviews surely it can't affect the box office.