Dreamboats extends until November

At the Playhouse.

As much as I enjoyed this show... WHY?!?!

The Dress/Upper circles were closed and the stalls only 2/3 the night I went, It must be making money but I really don't know how it can run with such poor turnout.

The cast were told a few weeks ago that their contracts were being extended so I don't think it's a spontaneous marketing tool.

It's a pretty cheap show to run by West End standards (actor-muso, so no additional musicians' fees, simple set, etc.- and Bill Kenwright is not noted for paying his actors too much LOL). And I think it's selling pretty well on weekends - it was full on the Saturday night I saw it.

I actually only went to see it coz a friend of mine is in the cast. But I have to admit that I really enjoyed it! (And I have an aversion to jukebox shows.) It is genuinely funny, the songs are all great and every member of the cast is brilliant. The biggest revelation was leading man, Scott Bruton (of X Factor fame). He had immense stage presence and natural charm and absolutely nailed all his vocals. It's a real crowd pleaser of a show and I'm not surprised this little guilty pleasure of mine has been extended.

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Yes I agree, a show I am to happy to miss, hard to go and watch a show, when there was such a sublime production in there the show before.

At times La Cage struggled, when Roger Allam and Phillip Quast was in, the Ambassadors website were offering tickets to the first 150 people for £15, I took advantage of this offer twice, I mean La Cage was great value at £60.

I am sure Kenwright The Frugal, isn't going to pay up to the cast if the show closes earlier than November.

So what is really the point in announcing the extension, when I go past the theatre next week I do not expect to see queues upto Trafalgar Square, nor the Ambassador website to go into melt down.

The Playhouse is and always has been a producers last choice to put a show in to. Since it was gloriously reclaimed back for life as a theatre in the mid 1987 it has not one great big hit on its stage. 'La Cage' is by far The Playhouses biggest show.

'Dreamboats' is an ATG show and The Playhouse is an ATG theatre- big savings there and the show made its money back last year.

It's a lovely little theatre, but in an awful location - it's not exactly on the way to anywhere, is it?

Whether it's on the road to anywhere depends on where you're going I guess lol. It's a few yards from the Jubilee Bridge across to the South Bank and I always walk across there on every trip to London so it would be very much a passing trade venue for someone like me. But I can see that many people don't walk around as much as I do and then only walk around the centre of the West End.

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^Yep!! So easy to get to. 2 mins from Charing X for the La Cage matinee then a lovely stroll across the bridge to the National for Habit of Art.

I wouldn't of said this was the worst theatre to find by a longshot though. New London, Shaftesbury, Palladium, and the two in Victoria can be alot more awkward. I never used to be able to find the Shaftesbury.

Having worked on the South Bank I know for certain that you do not walk pat the Playhouse when walking to the West End unless your going left to wards Buckingham Palace and the Whitehall Theatre!!!!