In the row in front,
At the Richard Herring show,
Emma Kennedy
I’m not sure if that really counts, but as I never see celebrities around town, I have to make the most of everything I can get: On Saturday, Sal and I popped into the West End to see the finished version of the Richard Herring show that we had seen previewed back in July. Despite my impression that we might turn out to be the only people there (on Thursday afternoon, when I booked the tickets, the Ticketmaster website was happy to offer me most of the seats in the front row, and the second, and the one behind that, and…) the bottom section of the theatre was almost full (although our suspicion that the circle might not have had any people in it was later confirmed by Herring’s report on his blog). The finished version of the show was largely excellent, and although there were a few jokes I recognised from the first time, there was also a lot of additional material, and in general the whole thing worked much better as a show. And he didn’t have to read his script off some sheets of printed A4 this time, which is always a good thing.