The misfiring musical 'Opening Night' has closed early and the doom-mongers are circling around Smith - but she was the best thing in it. Yesterday’s announcement means that the doom mongers are once again circling around Smith, whose personal and professional travails have been extensively documented in the media in recent years. What might this mean for a performer who surely deserved a decent break at this point in her career? Well, Smith certainly won’t have time to mull upon troubling issues this weekend, as she glams herself up for a trip to the Olivier Awards on Sunday. She is rightly nominated in the Best Actress category forSmith won’t win – for my money, Snook will – despite the brilliance of her performance as a bubbly but frustrated Liverpool housewife in Willy Russell’s modern classic.
The misfiring musical ' Opening Night ' has closed early and the doom-mongers are circling around Smith - but she was the best thing in it Opening Night
Yesterday’s announcement means that the doom mongers are once again circling around Smith, whose personal and professional travails have been extensively documented in the media in recent years. What might this mean for a performer who surely deserved a decent break at this point in her career? Well, Smith certainly won’t have time to mull upon troubling issues this weekend, as she glams herself up for a trip to the Olivier Awards on Sunday. She is rightly nominated in the Best Actress category forSmith won’t win – for my money, Snook will – despite the brilliance of her performance as a bubbly but frustrated Liverpool housewife in Willy Russell’s modern classic.
“Shezza will live to fight another day,” concluded Cavendish in his review, and so she will. Her next project – whatever that might be, straight acting or musical, on stage or television – will be lucky to have her and her loyal fans, bruised but undaunted by theexperience, will follow her there. And so, if we have any sense, will the rest of us who enjoy good art in all its forms.
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