The Play That Goes Wrong

Briefly had my hopes up that the original actors returning meant they would finally film this, but if it’s just two weeks and they haven’t announced such a thing, I doubt it. Still, nice to have such a stellar ensemble back.

Saw the tour in Birmingham tonight.

Love this show, and in particular this cast. I saw it on the West End back in 2017 but think I preferred it tonight. Exhilarating watching such a young cast who are so confident, well-drilled and already have such incredible chemistry together. It's truly exhausting to watch and genius at points.

The audience were a pack of arseholes, but that's a story for the Bad Behaviour thread if I can ever be bothered.

Can someone more familiar with the show than me clear something up for me?



Now I'm not naive enough to believe this was genuinely improvised, but it strikes me as unlikely that they'd involve a child. Is this something new that they've added to the show? It definitely didn't happen when I saw it on the West End.

Yeah my wife and I landed on "they prepare two different versions of the scene" after watching, couldn't imagine a child being a plant but like I said he said a lot of stuff very similar to a scene from PPGW. Thanks

Question for Dawnstar : When I saw the show years ago Chris apologised at the beginning for a booking mix-up with Mamma Mia, which is obviously directly across the road. I saw it again last year it was a mix-up with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, which had just started. Do they change that bit often? I assume it’s dropped from the tours?

I don't recall ever hearing them say anything other than Mamma Mia, though I didn't see it between February 2020 & last month so evidently missed it if they changed to Cinderella last year. Having just checked the published script (all 3 editions), those lines aren't in there at all so there is no published "official" version.

I’m seeing the tour in Liverpool on Monday and wondered is the pre show stuff with the missing dog still in the show or had that been scrapped?

Thanks adrianics. I’ll get to my seat early on then. 

Last night's show with the original cast was amazing.
Incredible atmosphere.

10th anniversary

Absolutely brilliant tonight on Manchester. The cast were on top form and a superb atmosphere in the theatre. If you have tickets for Newcastle next week you are in for a treat.

Agreed! Audience were loving it.
The ticket mix-up joke at the start was South Pacific, which makes complete sense as the front of the theatre was covered with SP advertising. (The tour opens there in July). The ledger section was absolutely fantastic as people started heckling Chris; someone yelled "It's behind you!" which took us into the Peter Pan Goes Wrong bit: "oh no it isn't" "oh yes it is" "shut up you're ruining it, this is not a pantomime" etc. Henry Shields even jumped off the stage to point at people in the audience and get them to stop laughing, then pointed to a man in the middle of the front row and yelled "you should be like this man, 45 minutes in and he hasn't laughed once!!".
As above poster said, Charlie was absent but her alternate Aisha Numah was great and fitted in well with the rest of the cast.
At Stage Door afterwards there was a long line of 60+ people - not sure if this is representative of the whole week but anyway, if you are planning on stage dooring be warned that there may be loads of people there! The cast were all completely lovely though and stopped to chat with everyone and do photos and everything.