With a month still to go before the gala opening, the production already has £2 million advance ticket sales and not a seat to be had since previews began a fortnight ago.
The magic Menier musicals machine is at it again.
A weird combination of factors brought Alfred Molina back to the London stage.
As Keira Knightley prepares to make her stage debut and Ben Whishaw sells out the Royal Court, the signs are good, says Matt Wolf, for a theatrical boomtime.
Just two weeks ago, the mother of The Wire star Dominic West died after a battle against leukaemia.
Friel cannot finally redeem what feels oddly like a musical without the music.