Glad you enjoyed it @EachandEveryone . I saw it a fortnight ago. I thought the play and the acting was great. The first part was surprisingly moving, SJP did quiet desperation beautifully. The middle and last parts really showed off MB's comedy chops. SJP actually forgot to do something in the last one that made the play of events not make sense, but they sailed through the mistake with great professionalism and smiles.
However, and this is a big however. What are the theatre thinking turning the whole thing into a giant hen party or something. Allowing people to take in glasses and whole bottles of wine. All you could hear was people clinking bottles and glasses and crashes when they were kicking them over. The women sitting behind us were really drunk and talking a lot all the way through. Ironically, they were complaining at the end that they were being bothered by some arsehole doing performative booming laughing all the way through, just to prove he got the joke. I heard his conversation with his date in the interval - talked so bloody loud everyone heard it - obviously thought himself some sort of connoisseur of comedy and the comedy craft of SJP in particular. Anyway, he was pissing off everyone. Perhaps we just went on a particularly bad night.
We did join the crowd afterwards and got autographs. SJP was all grace and smiles. MB seemed a bit grumpy, but was polite. However, the couple's security were really rude and arrogant, and were extremely rude and dismissive of a woman in a wheelchair who had waited for ages to get to the front for autographs, and was refused by the security guy who wouldn't take her programme.
So anyway, SJP and MB and they play, staging, costume and acting were all really great. I think they are very suited to Neil Simon, there's something of the old fashioned NY about them that suits the 1960s setting, and they really hit the New Yorker neuroticism nail on the head, as well as the complexity of disappointing relationships made tolerable by people making the best of the hand dealt to them. Just a shame about the bawdy crowd.