I was last in Future Boys in October 07. The tiredness of the show was obvious and infact was something I had noticed a year or two before, but it still had enough acts to fill an hour, though I do remember wishing they would get it over with because I had seen it all before.
Even then, I noticed that they had somewhat less than the usual 80 boys on offer. Probably just 40. I wondered if there was some reason e.g. harvest time, that would account for it but didn't enquire.
Now with the above posts, I realise that what I had seen was the start of the steep decline. Of course it had become stale about 2 years ago, preceding all this. A real shame.
However, there still remains the possibility that being New Year week, most boys had been off'ed, and there were just too few to do a show?
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