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Hello, hope you had a good Easter weekend, whatever you were doing.

Theatre Goa was a Manchester, so the police swooping on the theatre,

when there was an altercation after some members of the audience started doing this,

at a production of the Bodyguard, the musical.

Now, I'm not sure if you've picked up, but quite often after I finish recording an episode

in newscast, I go to the theatre, maybe two or three times a week, and now I've not seen

anything like that, or one of those moments where a celebrity has a massive meltdown

because somebody in the front rose on their phone, but I have noticed a bit of a trend,

and it's this, which is that the shows that are being put on are becoming more diverse.

So for example, you've got two, twenty-two, a ghost story, which usually has a female celebrity,

currently got Cheryl from Girls Allowed, then you've got things like the Nelson Mandela musical,

then I saw a musical about Sylvia Pankhurst, which was kind of like a British Hamilton,

it had lots of pop and rap in it and it had Beverly Knight in it, and more diverse shows are

going to attract a more diverse audience, and they might behave differently, especially if they're

encouraged to like tap along or whip or cheer as they were at some of the shows, or you're seeing

a really scary ghost play where then everyone turns round to their neighbor when they've just had

a fright and goes, oh that was a bit scary, wasn't it? And then throwing the fact that theatre's

are trying to be a bit more diverse anyway by kind of offering cheap particulates and deals for

younger people, that means there's definitely some change in the air. If people want to sing along

to a production of the bodyguard and musical, that suggests there's demand out there for an actual

official, single longer version of the bodyguard, the musical, and stuff like that is happening

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