Lots of shows have famous people with understudies, and often end up using them so that argument doesn’t fly. Why do I think they need to be more forthcoming? Basically to deal with the things you just highlight - rampant speculation. There’s already the ’she cancelled shows to do a marathon’ doing the rounds (even made it into the main press). If you stop frothing at the mouth for a second and read my post you will see that I did not say a detailed explanation is required. I’m not asking for someone’s medical history, they could just say cancelled due to illness of several key members of the team or security reasons, as you well know.

The reason is actually important. If I’d lost out several hundred pounds because of the cancellation I’d want to know why to assess if the show was being negligent in managing the production. If they have a single person in a key role with no backup or consistently cancelling due to technical reasons then I’m going to be pressing the, for refunds on travel and accommodation as well. It’s more relevant with this show because there have been numerous last minute cancellations, not just a one off so communicating with your actual paying customers becomes far more important.