Young Frankenstein Theatre Royal Newcastle/Garrick London

I was in on Saturday evening, my third visit (first in London) and got a £25 Dayseat in the second row for £25. Can’t fault the view at all. The stage is high so the second row is preferably to the £20 front row (Today Tix allocation), who probably all left the show with a sore neck.

The full cast were on and it was Shuler Hensley’s last show as The Monster, although this was not acknowledged onstage.

No changes that I could see from Newcastle apart from little things like two of the villagers have swapped lines in the opening number.

The film’s fan club seemed to be in and any reference to the film got an “ahhhh” acknowledgement, the crowd were great though, very well behaved and lots of laughter.

I adore this show and I think the casting is perfect. I could watch it over and over again (and probably will), the only real disappointment is that I forgot to head to the gift shop and get one of those magnets that BurlyBeaR has been raving about.

(I also seem to be developing a bit of a thing for Mr Fraser!)

Was there this afternoon, upper circle closed. Enjoyed the show, but not as much as I could as the man sat next to me smelt like urine (felt like gagging when he first sat down it was that bad), and the smell lingered throughout the entire performance.

Sad to hear about the Upper Circle though I suppose at least it wasn't empty on an evening or weekend show, its typical for some shows to have that and still be fine.

Sorry about the urine too. I had a guy sat in front of me at 42nd Street on Monday who smelled slightly of weed. It wasn't so overpowering that it bothered me, and I don't mind the smell of weed anyway, and it didn't both the lovely guy sat next to me, but I can imqgine some may of been bothered.

I know this is cheeky but has anyone try to get day tickets in the afternoon? can't make it to the theatre earlier... They only sell 11 tickets according to theatremonkey but I wonder if the release other seats when it's quiet...

The first and second rows aren't very wide due to the side stage staircases, hence the low numbers of seats sold in that offer.

I got day seats last month an hour before curtain up. They were decent enough for £25.

frontrowcentre I got a row F ticket at day seat price about half an hour before the show on their midweek matinee day a couple of weeks ago.

It's worth it for the scenes with Dianne alone, id recommend it wholehearedly!

No they’re not really not bad.

FTR, if this helps I am not good at loud noises too, I detest gunshots.

Very true. An usher even went and warned the front row about what was going to happen

Oh god, sorry for the detour but I had to leave in the interval at Ruth Wilson's Hedda Gabler at the National nearly a year ago. I was sat front row and after she repeatedly fired the very loud and very realistic gun literally towards the audience (i.e. right over my head), I knew I'd get so worked up during the second act when the gun returns so decided to leave. My own fault for booking front row.

But, on topic, I too am hoping to catch YF some time over the next couple of weeks.