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Alan Carr joins close pal and actor Scott Neal on the red carpet at Opening Night's press night performance


Alan Carr joined his close pal Scott Neal on the red carpet at Opening Night 's press night performance, starring Sheridan Smith , at The Gielgud Theatre on Tuesday.

Her dressing room, which she calls her 'shrine', is littered with pictures of her three-year-old son Billy and it's where she recuperates after performing her main drunk scene, which she'll improvise each night, that is so physically demanding she joked about needing to use shin pads. In MailOnline's exclusive footage earlier last week, Sheridan puffs on a cigarette and drunkenly falls to her knees during a scene that sees the rest of the cast discover her character Myrtle in an intoxicated state. 'But that's the whole point of working with Ivo van Hove, our director, he wants it all naturalistic and to be very real so if people are passing through that scene, every night, he wants that so, we will be doing it live eight times a week in Soho… but it's so exciting.'

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