{"id":127384,"date":"2020-12-04T22:23:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T19:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-christmas-carol-opens-to-smaller-distanced-audience\/"},"modified":"2020-12-04T22:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T19:23:28","slug":"a-christmas-carol-opens-to-smaller-distanced-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-christmas-carol-opens-to-smaller-distanced-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"#’A Christmas Carol’ opens to smaller, distanced audience"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’A Christmas Carol’ opens to smaller, distanced audience<\/strong>”
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LONDON \u2013 Opening its doors to a live audience for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic took hold in March, London\u2019s Dominion Theatre is getting ready to put on a social<\/a>ly distanced, concert-style production of musical \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d.<\/p>\n

The more than 2,000-seat theatre will be able to host fewer than 1,000 per show and the 28 cast members will remain apart on stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is wearing masks all the time, even in rehearsals, even when we\u2019re singing. The cast are socially distanced on stage during the production,\u201d producer Freddie Tapner told Reuters.<\/p>\n

British actor and comedian Brian Conley takes on the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly protagonist of the popular Charles Dickens Christmas story, a staple of London\u2019s theatreland during the festive season.<\/p>\n

Conley said he was delighted to be back in front of a live audience and felt safe doing the production.<\/p>\n

\u201cA live audience is where it\u2019s at, it\u2019s where you live in the moment. You come alive,\u201d he told Reuters.<\/p>\n

British theatres have been hit hard by the pandemic. More than 15,000 theatrical performances were cancelled in the first 12 weeks of lockdown with a loss of more than 300 million pounds ($400 million) in box office revenue, according to a parliamentary committee report in July.<\/p>\n

Despite the British government\u2019s 1.57-billion-pound rescue package for the arts, some in the industry feel there has not been enough support.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everyone\u2019s really felt this year, I don\u2019t know, left in the cold in some way \u2026 underapp<\/a>reciated,\u201d said Matt Jay-Wills, who plays Scrooge\u2019s mistreated clerk Bob Cratchit.<\/p>\n

He said the performers were grateful to be working. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen a cast so committed in my life. It\u2019s brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tapner said due to the limited number of seats on sale, the production, produced by The London Musical Theatre Orchestra, is not expected to make money \u2013 but the show will go on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have made that decision because we want to put theatre on this Christmas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Conley said he hoped the show would take the audience away from any coronavirus cares \u201cand just have a moment of Christmas spirit, of love\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d runs from Dec. 7 to Jan. 2.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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