Billy Nevers

There are some amazing performances.

Billy Nevers as Tom, alongside Jeavan Rache as Angel.

Another relationship, actually, which is just beautifully written and is, is heartbreakingly beautiful in, in how it's performed, how it's, how the s- the story develops and what you feel as an audience member.

Um, they are, both of them are wonderful.

While nothing will ever be the original for me, and I'm mostly grateful I'll never be 18 again, there are some standout performances in this production.

I think I can count two other times I've ever seen a mid-second act standing ovation, this time for Billy Nevers, who plays Collins.

The musical's adherence to the original staging doesn't take many risks.

The 90s are alive and well in this show, but we're still living in a world where the push and pull between art and capitalism haunts us daily.

But I think there's a problem with that moment, but I'll go back to that.

In Another Day, when Mimi tries to seduce Roger and get him sort of out of his, frankly, perfectly reasonable funk, he kind of makes it very visceral in a way that I think is really impressive.

Billy Nevers, I have to say, as Collins, I think is superb.

He was a real standout for me.

I wasn't sat in the right section to be able to tell you this, but I can overlay here some footage that I got panning throughout the auditorium, which might perhaps give you a sense of it.

Somebody has asked specifically, "How much is Billy Nevers going to make me cry?" And it is neither a spoiler nor a review to say that at the first preview performance, Billy's performance of the song I Cover You, Reprise in the second act earned a multi-level standing ovation, a sort of a chain reaction of standing ovation that started to pop up and went on for a considerable amount of time, and that was the only number that elicited that.

Somebody's asked, do I think there's any chance of a Broadway transfer? I dare say the conversation is being had.

It has the producers behind it who have the power to take it there.