Snooty about musicals? Sheila Hancock should change her tune

guardian.co.uk: "Are critics snooty about musicals? Sheila Hancock thinks so and has said so forcefully in a Radio Times interview. I beg to differ. A lot of my colleagues are musical buffs and can tell you precisely which numbers got cut in out-of-town try-outs of Broadway hits. And even I, often characterised as an anti-musical puritan, was reared on the genre. One of my earliest West End memories is of a superb Joan Littlewood musical, Make Me an Offer, in which a young Hancock stopped the show with a number called, if memory serves, Isn't it Romantic? But that was an age ago and times have changed."