When The Post-Opening Buzz Wore Off, Post-Knob-Showing Traumatic Stress Set In

As you no doubt will have heard, Daniel “Harry Potter” Radcliffe has taken his Equus role (i.e. the one in which he gets his gear out, and makes out with a pantomime horse, or something) to Broadway after a successful West End showing earlier in the year. Pre-show buzz has been remarkably positive (there has even been Tony Award chatter) and the play opened at the end of last week. As the Guardian proudly notes:

Ben Brantley, writing in the New York Times, praises the boy wizard’s sensitive and intelligent portrayal of the disturbed stable boy, Alan Strang, focusing on his “Alsatian-blue gaze” which “snags your attention with an extra, possibly dangerous gleam of intensity”. He has less praise for the “arid” and “dated” psychodrama, however.

Hip, hip for Radcliffe. But this is beside the point; the point being this remarkable photo snapped of Radcliffe at the stage door just after the performance:

(Remind you of anything?)

Radcliffe’s face says, “Oh shit. They all saw my todger. Oh my god. Where am I? Have I just come out of a coma? Who are all you people? An actor? What? I thought I was a geography teacher! MUUUMMM!”

Or maybe it’s just me.