How long since you last saw a show?

24th Feb Prince of Egypt and WOS Awards 1st March.
Should have seen Last 5 Years the following week but it was cancelled due to cast sickness. Then it all went downhill from then.

Friday March 13th - The Red Shoes

11 March, Sisterson Foods at the Vault.
I remember it was a Wednesday and the play was starting at 9 p.m. and it was dark and cold and raining... And I took a bus from home to get there (I'd usually walk, but the weather didn't allow for it) and wondered what on earth I was doing, freezing and wet in the middle of the working week, going to see some random play...
(I caught a cold that evening, and ultimately stayed home on Friday. I never went back to the office. I also didn't enjoy the play much.)

Before that it was Daughter at the BAC on Monday, 9 March. 
(It was also cold, wet and the bus from Strand took forever to arrive - I thought I'd be late. I remember I was sad I could not stay for the Q&A, but figured it would take me forever to get home... Spoiler alert: it did.)

And before that - what I classify as my actual last trip to the theatre, because it was the last thing I *really* loved and such a wonderful evening overall - was Afterplay at the Coronet on Saturday, 7 March.

So it's been... 123 days (or 120) if I'm counting it right. 

I know it's a silly thing to say, because there are so many greater issues in the world - but I miss theatre *so much*... 

7 March, for Guy: A New Musical at the Turbine.

If I’d known it would be so long I’d have tried to pick something better! Nothing after that before lockdown as I was booked for lots of stuff at BFI Flare, and had been discussing with my OH how much of it we felt comfortable going to - and then it was cancelled.

I have 4 shows left in my diary for 2020, and I expect them all to be cancelled.

3rd March - Magic Goes Wrong.

I saw an excellent high school production of Hairspray on March 7. Before that, the last professional production of anything I saw was the Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat concert at Lincoln Center on Feb. 17.

Going through my photos, I realize the last two shows I saw on Broadway were on Jan 11 and 12 — American Utopia and The Book of Mormon. Wow!

My last show was Waitress on the 29th of February... 130 days ago... I’ve since had to cancel two trips back to London and seven shows. Gosh, I miss it so much.

City of Angels, 13th March.

116 days ago.

14th March - Our Lady of Blundellsands at the Everyman in Liverpool.

Not really missing theatre much as the way most regional theatres have their Christmas shows on for two months, and then wind down around May for the summer, means it's not that unusual for me to have quite a long gap between shows. Very strange to think that the next show I have booked isn't until the end of November though (Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker at the Lowry) if that goes ahead. And after that the next thing is Sister Act next summer.

7th March, Shoe Lady at the RC: I’d hate for something to happen to me (or the theatre industry disintegrates altogether) and the last thing I saw was that 💩

Mine was the gorgeous The Boy Friend at the Menier on Sat 7 March.
I also had a packed week of shows leading up to that - Ball and Boe, The Red Shoes and Mary Poppins. It was definitely a case of feast then famine!

14th March The Comedy About A Bank Robbery in the afternoon & La Traviata at the ROH in the evening. The irony of the last thing I saw on stage being someone dying of lung disease is not lost on me! The trains to/from London were pretty empty, I walked from Kings Cross into the West End & back, as I didn't feel comfortable going on the tube (admittedly I do so fairly often anyway), & the ROH had a lot of empty seats. I can only assume that combination of factors, plus my OCD, helped me to avoid getting coronavirus because once the government revealed exactly how much of a coronavirus hotspot London was at the time I was amazed I hadn't got it.

8th March. Not Quite Jerusalem at the Finborough. Then dinner at a Szechwanese restaurant where the staff received us with gratitude and warmth amidst the Sinophobia which was raging at the time.

Tragically my last two theatre visits were slight stinkers - Sinners at The Playground Theatre on 4 March (not terrible just overly melodramatic) and Corpse at The Park on 6 March (perfectly entertaining, veering towards so bad it's good territory).

Would have been La Cage at The Park on 13 March, which I was really looking forward to but it was cancelled for non-Covid cast illness reasons.

Alas...