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From snoring to clapping and getting drunk...Inside the theatre as Sheridan Smith gets set for the curtain call of Opening Night after producers announced show would end its West End run early


Theatregoers watching Sheridan Smith's under-fire West End performance were heard whispering 'I don't get it' to each other during the interval, MailOnline can reveal.

Nick Curtis: 'This dismally muddled, self-important, furtively misogynist musical about an actress going to pieces squanders the talents of everyone involved, even breaking's Sheridan Smith's unique ability to connect with an audience.' Stefan Kariazis: 'Not even a charismatic, soul-baring Sheridan Smith can save Ivo van Hove's abominable, misjudged musical adaptation of John Cassavetes' iconic, challenging 1977 film.' 'And Van Hove doesn't help with his rough-and-ready mise en scène, which sets the action in a rudimentary back-stage environment, lined with dressing room mirrors at the rear, into which Myrtle sadly stares.'

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