He's a massive West End star now, isn't he.
Got the box office figures and the show is averaging 1,100 seats per performance, August was just over 750, so it's definitely doing better. Don't think it's all down to Joe's fans but the publicity in general.
Was also given his individual performance schedule,
The first half runs to 70 minutes, Joe enters at 53 minutes for his first song (never getting rid of me) and is on stage for 10 mins.
The second half runs to 60 minutes, Joe enters at 10 minutes, under Laura's dress and simulates sex for about 40 seconds and leaves the stage after another 20 seconds, this is during the Bad Idea reprise number.
At 15 mins he comes on for another 1 minutes 30 seconds.
At 27 mins he has his second song (I love you like a table) it is his wedding scene, although he is on the stage for 10 minutes he is a background artist for 7 minutes, while others perform their song.
At 53 mins he has a 1 minute scene at the hospital bed of the main character.
At 58 mins he is in the closing scene mostly with the young girl, this lasts for 2 minutes.
Then there is the curtain call of which he is on stage for approximately 1 minute 30 although he is usually the last to leave.
So in conclusion out of 2 hours 10 minutes he is on stage for 27 minutes, properly performing for 20 minutes.
I was quite shocked when given this information as if you read the tweets and praise (he's the best thing about the show) and even though I knew it wasn't the main part I thought he would have been on much longer. Poor Ashley didn't get half the praise or publicity and she was a main character.
I was also told that the warm up was at 6pm with the show starting at 7.30, Joe's first scene is at 8.23, no wonder he can build Lego models and tit around backstage for hours he must be so bored.