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Sheridan Smith wows in a skintight semi-sheer mini dress as she joins James Norton at her West End show Opening Night afterparty


The icon was all smiles as she arrived at the afterparty at The Ham Yard Hotel to cheers to her incredible performance - which went down a hit with critics.

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. She adds: 'It feels a bit like the whole cast is trolling musical theatre fans: they linger like bedraggled pigeons in the corners of a vast unornamented stage, capturing the inertia, rather than the glamour, of backstage life.

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