Playwright Blames Brexit For Musical Flop

Rufus Wainwright’s new musical “Opening Night”, starring Sheridan Smith, was canned two months before the end of its run thanks to the sheer extent of boredom experienced by audiences and critics. He’s complained to The Guardian (one of the only papers to review the musical favourably):

“I do feel that since Brexit, England has entered into a darker corridor where it is a little more narrow in its outlook, and the vitriol because we put ‘English rose Sheridan Smith through this ordeal of European theatre’ felt a little bit suspect to me… All of the reviews from Europe were incredible for this piece; the staging and the rhythm is more European and there was a vitriolic reaction against that.