Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove - Noel Coward Theatre

£177.50!!!!!! Good grief! 
Presume the £20 are the back row, possibly edges only, or standing?

I don't think standing was on sale but no, not even the back row. Just the edges/slips.

FOMO's a curse! Went for two at £84.75 each on Thurday 17 October evening, which is the last performance before the Band A price goes up to £89.75 and stays at that for all subsequent performances on any day of the week (at least currently before dynamic pricing has anything to do with it). The previous Friday/Saturday are also at that higher price.

No, sorry, a typo, now fixed.  It's October.

I'm seeing prices typically around £2.75 cheaper than Dave B has them above, but that may be because I don't pay a booking fee as a DMT+ member.

Nerdy fact probably no one cares about: Peter Sellers (the original Doctor Strangelove) was a huge fan of Stan Laurel and not only met him but also based his performance in Being There on him - Steve Coogan played Stan in the movie Stan & Ollie, so it’s a strange twist of date that he’s now playing Sellers in a way

His own management agency don't list any stage credits on his CV. He has done stage stuff but probably not of the sort we'd think of, he's done a few tours playing his own comedy creations (mainly Partridge). That includes arena tours, so I can see a marketing person converting that to 'huge stage star'. A quick search around the internet didn't yield me a dramatic play. Nonetheless it's decent casting I think.

Will have a peak around at the 10am ticket release but totally agree with Marwood about not generally booking things a year in advance anymore. If nothing else, whilst your seat selection is better it's not like the prices are particularly cheap anymore, they dynamically price everything immediately.

I think this is really good casting. I'm not a huge fan of said 'character' but thought he was great in Philomena and astonishingly good in Stan & Ollie. I reckon he's very versatile and pretty talented so, even if he's not been on stage before, I think he's a big enough performer to  make it work and I'll be really interested to see him in this.

I think in theory he’s perfect casting, he’s as close as we’ve got to Peter Sellers. However there’s a barrier to overcome - for example I bet every single review mentions Alan Partridge.

Crikey! Good call. I'd have seen that but I remember very little about it. Certainly not Steve Coogan. Weird, since he would already have been pretty well known as AP by then (1996, apparently). I have a vague recollection of Nigel Lindsay and Robert Glenister but that's about it.  theatricalia.com/play/5w1/blue-remembered-hills/production/sbv

Well remembered Alice. I'd had a look on his wikipage and no plays were listed. But it is nice to know he has done some stage work outside of his own tours.

I'll be most interested to see how Steve plays the President character. Dr Strangelove himself he can have a lot of fun with and the British RAF officer Mandrake will be an easy character for him to master even if he is a lot older than Peter Sellars when he played Mandrake. Steve being in his late 50's will be a plus to him playing the president and Strangelove as they would have been a lot older than Peter Sellars was when he played them.

Sellars was due to play the B52 commander in the film too but hurt his ankle and couldn't work in the confined plane set but I doubt Steve would be able to or want to play 4 characters on stage as logistics and workload would just be too much.

Hopefully there will be decent names in the supporting cast as there are a number of good roles there for top actors to get into.