“Last week, audiences hyperventilated over the latest [musical], Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Sound of Music, while at Amy’s View there was appreciative but reserved applause. It is not all disaster for straight drama: Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll is still doing okay and it will be a real surprise if Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon does not at least run its course. But they are not doing anywhere near as good business as the musicals – and producers, in their more pessimistic moments, talk about straight drama being an endangered species in the West End. Perhaps we get the theatre we deserve. Straight drama will close unless people go and see it.”