Opening Night review: A missed opportunity sorely lacking in camp

Sheridan Smith in Opening Night (Image: Provided/Jan Versweyveld)

Name a more fabulous duo than Sheridan Smith and Rufus Wainwright, our best Judys. We’ll wait. Imagine a night out with them. The music! The glamour! The drama! The humour! We’d give anything to experience it.

The next best thing, we reasoned, was Opening Night: a new musical starring Sheridan and scored by Rufus about the very public breakdown of a Broadway legend. 

‘How much Judy Garland energy can one production take?!’ we told ourselves of this unlikely pairing. ‘It’ll be a sensation!’

We rocked up to London’s Gielgud Theatre, then, believing we were on the town with ‘Shrufus’. Believing – like the crazed fan whose death at the stage door sparks our protagonist’s unravelling – that our favourites could do no wrong. 

Clutch your pearls,

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