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    Sheridan Smith stuns in a semi-sheer black mini dress for Opening Night afterparty following glowing reviews for her West End performance

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    Sheridan Smith put on a racy display in a semi-sheer black mini dress as she celebrated her West End performance in the Opening Night on Tuesday.

    The actress, 42, flashed her toned torso in the cut-out style ensemble and elevated her toned legs with black platform high-heels.

    The icon was all smiles as she arrived at the afterparty at The Ham Yard Hotel to cheers to her incredible performance – which went down a hit with critics. 

    Sheridan stars as functioning alcoholic actress Myrtle Gordon in the new musical – which is based on the 1977 drama film starring Gena Rowlands.

    The acclaimed TV star – who endured a public breakdown amid her run in Funny Girl in 2016 – dyed her blonde locks brown especially for the part. 

    Sheridan Smith, 42, put on a racy display in a semi-sheer black mini dress as she celebrated her West End performance in the Opening Night on Tuesday

    Sheridan Smith, 42, put on a racy display in a semi-sheer black mini dress as she celebrated her West End performance in the Opening Night on Tuesday

    The actress flashed her toned torso in the cut-out style ensemble and elevated her toned legs with black platform high-heels

    The actress flashed her toned torso in the cut-out style ensemble and elevated her toned legs with black platform high-heels

    A host of celebrities attended the press night performance at The Gielgud Theatre to support Sheridan in the musical and joined her in celebrating afterwards.

    Happy Valley actor James Norton was seen congratulating Sheridan, shortly after she was joined by the her co-stars including Amy Lennox and writer Rufus Wainwright.

    Sheridan has begun a 21-week sting in the new musical Opening Night at the Gielgud Theatre – based on the namesake 1977 film about the actress who is left traumatised by the death of a teenage fan.

    The moment is filmed live every night outside the London theatre, for all passersby to see and the audience witnesses the action live via a video transmitted into the theatre.

    Sheridan – who exclusively told MailOnline she took on the role to ‘take control’ of her own demons – can be seen outside the theatre as Myrtle, turning up late to the first night of the show after taking a drop too much.

    The actress described being offered the role as ‘a gift’ because she can use it to finally extinguish past traumas which threatened to derail her career.

    She said: ‘It feels like a moment of taking back control. I feel like the part is a gift, it’s a gift of a part for any actress to play and I’m loving every minute of it, it’s such an honour. I can’t wait for people to see it now.’

    The Care favourite is on great form as she speaks enthusiastically about her return to theatre – after getting raving reviews for her most recent role in The Castaways.

    The icon was all smiles as she arrived at the afterparty at The Ham Yard Hotel to cheers to her incredible performance - which went down a hit with critics

    The icon was all smiles as she arrived at the afterparty at The Ham Yard Hotel to cheers to her incredible performance – which went down a hit with critics

    A host of celebrities attended the press night performance at The Gielgud Theatre to support Sheridan in the musical and joined her in celebrating afterwards

    A host of celebrities attended the press night performance at The Gielgud Theatre to support Sheridan in the musical and joined her in celebrating afterwards

    Sheridan teamed her looked with a quirky tasseled blazer

    Happy Valley actor James Norton was seen congratulating Sheridan, shortly after she was joined by the her co-stars including Amy Lennox and writer Rufus Wainwright

    Happy Valley actor James Norton was seen congratulating Sheridan, shortly after she was joined by the her co-stars including Amy Lennox and writer Rufus Wainwright

    James and Sheridan couldn't wipe the smiles off their faces as they posed for a photo

    James and Sheridan couldn’t wipe the smiles off their faces as they posed for a photo

    Sheridan posed arm-in-arm with her co-star Benjamin Walker as they celebrated their magnificent performance

    Sheridan posed arm-in-arm with her co-star Benjamin Walker as they celebrated their magnificent performance

    Nicola Hughes, Amy Lennox, Shira Haas, Rufus Wainwright, Sheridan Smith and Loudon Wainwright III pictured L-R

    Nicola Hughes, Amy Lennox, Shira Haas, Rufus Wainwright, Sheridan Smith and Loudon Wainwright III pictured L-R

    The cast of Opening Night gathered for a photo

    The cast of Opening Night gathered for a photo

    Sheridan Smith looked delighted as she celebrated at the curtain call of her brand new musical Opening Night in London on Tuesday

    Sheridan Smith looked delighted as she celebrated at the curtain call of her brand new musical Opening Night in London on Tuesday 

    Actress Sheridan, 42, who plays a Broadway legend Myrtle Gordon who struggles with alcoholism, stumbles on the streets outside the theatre during her performance

    Actress Sheridan, 42, who plays a Broadway legend Myrtle Gordon who struggles with alcoholism, stumbles on the streets outside the theatre during her performance 

    Her dressing room, which she calls her ‘shrine’, is littered with pictures of her three-year-old son Billy and it’s where she recuperates after performing her main drunk scene, which she’ll improvise each night, that is so physically demanding she joked about needing to use shin pads.

    She added: ‘When I went home on Sunday I have to say, I woke up and I was aching everywhere and I was like my goodness, I’m getting older.’ 

    In MailOnline’s exclusive footage earlier last week, Sheridan puffs on a cigarette and drunkenly falls to her knees during a scene that sees the rest of the cast discover her character Myrtle in an intoxicated state.

    But Sheridan says she loves the unpredictability of improvising, saying: ‘It’s fun and I love all of that, that’s the excitement and why I want to be an actress. I have never done anything quite like this before. That moment will be live every night so anything could happen.’

    ‘But that’s the whole point of working with Ivo van Hove, our director, he wants it all naturalistic and to be very real so if people are passing through that scene, every night, he wants that so, we will be doing it live eight times a week in Soho… but it’s so exciting.’

    Sheridan Smith wins over (the majority) of critics for her performance in West End musical Opening Night 

    She has gone down a hit with critics after Tuesday night’s press night performance at The Gielgud Theatre.

    Sheridan stars as functioning alcoholic actress Myrtle Gordon in the new musical – which is based on the 1977 drama film starring Gena Rowlands.

    The acclaimed TV star – who endured a public breakdown amid her run in Funny Girl in 2016 – dyed her blonde locks brown especially for the part. 

    The Daily Mail 

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    Patrick Marmion praised the musical as an ‘extraordinary theatrical’, saying: ‘It’s almost as if this studiously obtuse new musical which opened in the West End last night was designed to sabotage its fabulous leading lady, Sheridan Smith’

    He adds: ‘And yet, if you can’t keep a good woman down, you’ve got no chance whatsoever against Smith’s unstoppable charisma’.

    The Guardian

    Rating:

    Arifa Akbar, who gave a strong four star rating for Sheridan’s performance, says: ‘To throw songs into the mix and swap the glacial queenliness of Gena Rowlands for the insuppressibly likable Sheridan Smith, might have been a step too far.

    ‘Yet here is an extravagantly original production, every bit as eccentric as the film but also its own alchemical creation, more vivacious in this musical incarnation.’

    The Independent 

    Rating:

    Alice Saville gives her say: ‘Anyone who bought tickets to in the hope of seeing its star treating us to a bit of thespy, Funny Girl-style razzle dazzle is in for a serious shock.’

    She adds: ‘It feels a bit like the whole cast is trolling musical theatre fans: they linger like bedraggled pigeons in the corners of a vast unornamented stage, capturing the inertia, rather than the glamour, of backstage life. It’s flawed, but intermittently haunting.’

    The Telegraph

    Rating:

    Dominic Cavendish says: ‘Sheridan Smith enthralls, but this play is a pretentious, convoluted mess’

    He adds: ‘If you’re not acquainted with the Cassavetes original, you may well struggle to keep up or get duly engrossed (the Broadway show seems entirely disposable). 

    ‘And Van Hove doesn’t help with his rough-and-ready mise en scène, which sets the action in a rudimentary back-stage environment, lined with dressing-room mirrors at the rear, into which Myrtle sadly stares.’

    The Evening Standard

    Rating:

    A disappointed Nick Curtis says: ‘This dismally muddled, self-important, furtively misogynist musical about an actress going to pieces squanders the talents of everyone involved, even breaking’s unique ability to connect with an audience.’

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