Don't remember much about the Justice incident.
Listening to Donald's radio show about the musicals done at the Royal National in London. He mentions Olivier Award winner David Healy who won for playing Nicely-Nicely in the '82 production of GUYS & DOLLS. David that same year was cast as Dr. Watson in my two Sherlock Holmes films, SIGN OF FOUR & HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. Unfortunately, much of HOUND was shot on location in Dartmoor and David couldn't get out of his contract with the National. So after playing Watson in SIGN, we had to replace him with Donald Churchill for HOUND. David was actually an American from Texas who was married to a British woman. I did not see this famed production of G & D, because it being my first time in London, I was going to see typical "British" theatre and didn't want to see American musicals. Donald is wrong about the space between the time the National did A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC & their next musical which he says was OKLAHOMA (I saw both of these by the way, though OKLAHOMA had transferred to the West End by the time I saw. LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC I saw on the Olivier stage with Dench, Philips,and Hodge). In between these musicals, the National did yet another revival of GUYS & DOLLS. This one I did see, with powerhouse Clive Rowe playing Nicely-Nicely. He must have done five or six encores of SIT DOWN YOUR ROCKING THE BOAT, the night we saw it. We actually had a hard time getting seats for it and our pal, actor Jason Isaacs, pulled some strings for us and got us excellent house seats. It was also a huge hit.
I don't remember whether VILLAIN'S OPERA was done before OKLAHOMA or not, but it too was a musical, an updating of BEGGAR'S OPERA about London's East End crime world. I don't think it was a hit, but the lovely wife, Julieanne, and I were mesmerized by it...It also featured the charismatic Mr. Rowe.
Healy, by the by, was a lovely nice man. He passed away a few years back.