First Night: Hedda Gabler, Old Vic, London

I simply longed to be her chihuahua as I watched Sheridan Smith's irresistible portrayal of Elle, the not-so-dumb bimbo in the musical of Legally Blonde. I ached to dry her tears when, in another Olivier-award winning performance, the actress played a plucky former barmaid in Flare Path. These parts are not exactly conventional rungs, though, in the ascent to performing Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, the disdainful daughter o…

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