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Dame Julie Andrews‘ concert at London’s O2 Arena was described as “a car crash of musical theatre” and fans were left dissapointed, with some demanding for refund.

The concert was advertised as “An Evening With Julie Andrews” but spectators claimed that all of the singing was left to her backing group. She completed only a few numbers on her own and ended the show reading a children’s book she co-wrote with her daughter.

“I’ve seldom seen so many walkouts during the course of a show, and the pace only accelerated in the second act,” said Mark Shenton, a critic who writes reviews for entertainment magazine The Stage.

“Not since an arena stage production of Ben-Hur last year staged a series of intentional chariot crashes here have I witnessed such an unintentional pile-up of car-crash musical theatre.”

Julie Andews, who won a best actress Oscar for Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, had a throat operation in 1997. The surgery had threatened to end her singing career.

“I don’t sing the way I used to, so I’m doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn’t expect that,” Andrews said during an interview with The Daily Telegraph.