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How else to make this the Patti show with such a strong cast? 😛

Front row view is perfect!

Went tonight. Full house. Lots of screaming after each number. Trade night?

The positive are that the show remains as fun as ever and the new additions mostly work well. The female Bobby works a treat and you definitely see the character in a different light.

Some of the scenes still feel a bit surplus to requirement and as others have said do go on a bit. When it drops during these it really does drop, but that's only because the scenes and numbers that do work do so so brilliantly.

As others have also said Jonathan BaileyMa song was fantastic. Hilarious and moving at the same time.

Bits that didn't work for us included the strangely muted another 100 people, and side by side which had its moments but didn't feel crazy enough. Didn't catch who did the choreography but a lot of it felt tight and gestury rather than inciting movement. You could drive a person crazy also fairly muted. It's normally so buzzy and invites instant rapturous applause but the barber shop quartet and again the movement which really wasn't as sharp for this number as it should have been meant it sort of just happened.

Also Patti! She was great with her lines dotted throughout the show but we didn't quite feel her big number. They seem to have chosen to remove her drunkenness from the song and have her almost being calmn and composed. A different take on it but not sure if it works this way. She never really let rip. We want her to haha. I think. Great to see her but I reckon she could do a lot more with that number. Having said that everyone screamed afterwards and clapped for a long time.

This might have been us, but a strange problem was that as well as making Amy a gay man in Jamie which was brilliant and worked so well, they seem to have made at least three of the other supposedly straight men gay too.

Richard Fleeshman's character seemed so gay he was terrified to sleep with Bobby. He was camp as Christmas in his gestures too. But then he is an air steward/pilot.

George Blagden's PJ was another who came across as much more homo than heterosexual. His outfit was appalling though, so maybe not as gay as we thought. But his gestures and way of acting did not scream man for Bobby. He does not convince at all as a straight eligible man for Bobby.

And the third was Ashley Campbell's Peter. Again, this character was not presented as a straight guy.

Does anyone know if this is intentional?

Bobby asks Jamie to marry her at the end of their scene. Is she knowingly attracting herself to men she could never have?

Having said that, Peter is married to Susan and therefore surely straight? Or is she divorcing him or he her because they've realised something?

If you're seeing it soon, see if you can see what we mean. We'd love to know if Marianne had a plan with doing this.

Rosalie was great. She never does ugly or big breakdown, in any roles we've seen her in, so even at her most down she's still beautiful and fairly in control. So maybe she could go a bit deeper.

The end is weird too, after Being Alive. Does she want coupledom or singledom? The outcome of the song says one thing, the scene at the end another.

So much to think about! But we really enjoyed it, and cant wait to go back twice to see how it develops.

Was like that Saturday night. The best audience experince ever for me was a preview of 42nd St.   


Just wonder if preview night audiences  are more 'up for it' and lively. Certainly works for musicals.

Having said that, Peter is married to Susan and therefore surely straight? Or is she divorcing him or he her because they've realised something?

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Not sure how the current production handles this, but Peter and Susan's "friendly divorce" always seemed to be about him being able to sleep around, and his envy for those not trapped by convention, so he's probably more opportunistic than actually gay. His pass at Bobby is awkward and doomed to fail, but in the Donmar version they did hint that Bobby might have had same sex encounters in the past.
It all sounds rather dated in a modern setting,and of course irrelevant with a female Bobbie, unless Susan and Peter swap parts, which presents new problems....

Is this production Peter coming onto Bobbie would make sense, although that part of the script is cut. So it’s just jolly japes about a fabulous divorce, which worked really well.

That doesn't necessarily mean they'll all go - that happened to me for 42nd Street once and I refreshed a couple of mins later and got two tickets.

Yes, it's been taking up to an hour an half until all the tickets are completely gone, you just need to be lucky and click just when someone decides not to buy them and before they go onto someone else's basket.

Has anyone try rush tickets at the theatre? how busy is it?

Thanks!! Enjoy the show

What are day seat prices like?

25£

It definitely can't have been trade then lol