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Revealed, how Sheridan Smith was locked in dressing room after slurring stage meltdown: Cast members are told to keep quiet and support the Funny Girl actress.
Sheridan Smith has perfected what you might call the showbiz smile.
She has been wearing it in public ever since the events of Thursday night at the Savoy Theatre in London, when the curtain came down during a performance of the musical Funny Girl, and the audience were sent home with an explanation that technical issues had made it impossible to continue.
But behind the scenes there is ‘terrible upset’ over what happened that night.
And although the show goes on — it is slated to continue until October this year, with £5 million worth of tickets sold on the strength of the leading lady’s name — a production source says: ‘There is a lot of fear and terrible upset. The cast have been told to keep their mouths shut and support Sheridan.’
So what happened? Several theatregoers seem to be in no doubt about what they saw — which was a leading lady who was apparently unfit to perform.
Abigail Richter, who paid £123 for a stalls ticket, told one newspaper: ‘It was an unbelievable disaster. Sheridan was all over the place. At one point, she was standing centre stage and her leg went from underneath her.
‘She started in a Bronx accent but slipped into Irish. Then there was a dance scene where at one point she grabbed the dancers’ groins. She walked off and they literally just dropped the curtains.’
Another who was there wrote online: ‘I don’t mean to sound nasty at all, but the show was really uncomfortable viewing from the start. Sheridan was slurring her words and forgetting her lines.’
Can this really have been so? Two eye-witnesses involved with the production have come forward and said that those theatregoers were not mistaken.
Sheridan’s read: ‘Gregory’s Girl’ and was inked on to her ribcage. Meanwhile, Greg’s tattoo read: ‘My Sheri Amour’. But by July it was all over, with the actress tweeting that she had been ‘hurt by an idiot boy again’, and making cryptic remarks about his co-star Tamara Wall, hinting that she and Wood were having an affair.
The pair were reunited a few weeks later and went on holiday together, but finally called it a day in December.
Her blunt conclusion, in an interview with Vogue magazine, was: ‘What can I say? I don’t pick them very well!’
David Walliams, a friend who appeared with her in A Midsummer Night’s Dream two years ago, has said: ‘I felt like an older brother, constantly giving advice about her tangled love life, which she never, ever took!’
For now, Sheridan is single — but apparently unhappily so.
‘She loves men, especially dangerous ones,’ says a friend. Another avers: ‘There are wild swings. She seems to get so wound up about everything.’
You can only hope that, bright smiles or not, someone can help this wonderfully gifted Funny Girl out of the slough of despond in which she finds herself.
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