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One of the theatre managers told us it was the first time they had seen a queue at the gents in the interval.

So says British theatre producers producer Ed O'Driscoll about his recent stage version of Britcom Dad's Army. He hopes to equal or better the success of the show, which drew the "elusive male audience" to the theatre, with a stage version of Porridge. The big question, of course, is whether anybody could do on stage what the genius Ronnie Barker did on television.
PS: O'Driscoll's Dad's Army was not the version seen in Brisbane a year or two ago; it was a compilation of two favourite episodes and two "lost" scripts that never made it to the small screen.