Following Ken Bodfish's response (Letters, March 11) to John Parry's article on Storming The Dome, I must confess to totally agreeing with Mr Parry's comments.
I really wanted to sit back, enjoy the atmosphere and see the whole building come back to life. With more than 400 local performers taking part, I could not believe the lack of atmosphere (the Dome was half-empty), the awful music and the almost total lack of relevance to Brighton and Hove.
I would have thought chief executive Nick Dodds would have made an effort to come on to the stage to say a few words before the first show.
Instead, we had a disembodied female voice asking us to stay seated at the end while a photographer snapped us all.
As we left our seats, heading for a double brandy in the nearest pub, I saw Councillor Bodfish standing in the bar, obviously about to see the second show.
Perhaps he and his council colleagues then saw a different show to the rest of us.
The musicians, singers and actors all did their best and I am sure they must have found the whole thing as baffling as the audience.
We are neither stupid nor snobs, just normal people who wanted to enjoy a show by and for the people of Brighton and Hove, as the publicity material promised.
It was all very sad. I could not help thinking of the Emperor's New Clothes.
-M Ashby, Goldstone Villas, Hove
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