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Opening Night review: Sheridan Smith defies director's bid to ruin her big night with a cheekiness and vulnerability as dangerous as it is riveting, writes PATRICK MARMION
What an extraordinary theatrical mash-up Opening Night is ... opened in the West End last night was designed to sabotage its fabulous leading lady, Sheridan Smith. And yet, if you can't keep ...
The Sun1y
Sheridan Smith’s Opening Night creator defends actress amid storm over theatre show as audience members ‘fall asleep’
THE musical creator of Sheridan Smith’s Opening Night has defended the actress as the troubled West End show faces being cut short after audience backlash. Theatre-goers have been accused of ...
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‘Opening Night’ Review: Sheridan Smith’s Turn Cannot Save Ivo Van Hove and Rufus Wainwright’s Monotonous Musical Adaptation
At the start of the second half of Ivo Van Hove’s production of his own musical version of John Cassavetes’ ultra-Seventies backstager “Opening Night” — with music and lyrics by Rufus ...
The Stage1y
Opening Night starring Sheridan Smith – review round-up
Mostly, though, Opening Night has caused such excitement because it sees two-time Olivier Award-winner Sheridan Smith perform in a musical for the first time since 2019 – and act in a story that ...
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‘Opening Night’ Review: Sheridan Smith’s Turn Cannot Save Ivo Van Hove and Rufus Wainwright’s Monotonous Musical Adaptation
Following the movie on which it’s based, the show follows the onstage/offstage life of Myrtle (Sheridan Smith), a leading ... all the way up to opening night. But where Cassavetes artfully ...