I'd assumed Hobsons Choice too. Enjoy !
I'd an old actress friend, sadly passed away a few years ago at 86, and she learned her trade at RADA back when, pre war. She was still tutoring young thespians well into her 80s! She had the most beautifully modulated voice I've ever heard.
She and I went to see a young student of hers who was performing the young boy in The Snowman at a local Birmingham theatre.
A quick look round the audience in the (packed) theatre, elicited the comment from her that times had changed -and not for the better, always. There was no sense of occasion in dressing for it, and it made her sad.
Certainly, at the vaudeville, a big hint is in the name? Remember andrew Sachs ?
Me, tho, I started my long affair with the theatre by sitting up in the gods every time the Rep.changed its programme. 1/6 it was. Just my price