{"id":303009,"date":"2021-07-19T21:27:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T18:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/andrew-lloyd-webber-may-close-cinderella-due-to-covid-rules\/"},"modified":"2021-07-19T21:27:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T18:27:20","slug":"andrew-lloyd-webber-may-close-cinderella-due-to-covid-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andrew-lloyd-webber-may-close-cinderella-due-to-covid-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"#Andrew Lloyd Webber may close ‘Cinderella’ due to COVID rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Andrew Lloyd Webber may close ‘Cinderella’ due to COVID rules<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The British government won\u2019t let poor \u201cCinderella\u201d go to the ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s new musical was set to have its opening night Tuesday in London, but the production has been thrown into chaos due to one actor, among the cast of more than 30, contracting the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Tonight\u2019s premiere \u2014 which was supposed to coincide with the rest of England pulling pandemic-related restrictions on what Downing Street is calling Freedom Day \u2014 was canceled and a new opening date has not been named. In a statement, the \u201cPhantom of the Opera\u201d composer and West End theater owner said that because of the UK\u2019s quarantine rules, his musical might close altogether.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Saturday, as part of this [testing] process, we identified one positive case in a member of our cast who has a cameo in the show,\u201d Lloyd Webber said. \u201cAs a precautionary measure, we canceled two shows on Saturday while we carried out further tests on everyone backstage, which were negative.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The production then administered follow-up PCR tests, all of which came back negative.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite this,\u201d Lloyd Webber said, \u201cthe impossible conditions created by the blunt instrument that is the government\u2019s isolation guidance mean that we cannot continue. We have been forced into a devastating decision, which will affect the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lloyd Webber ended sounding like his Phantom about to tear down the Paris Opera House chandelier: \u201cFreedom Day has turned into closure day.\u201d<\/p>\n

But is he scrapp<\/a>ing the sets and wheeling out the ghost light at the Gillian Lynne Theatre? Sources close to the production insist that this is not a Lloyd Webber stunt, and that the state of the show really is up in the air. And a spokesman for \u201cCinderella\u201d told The Post that there will definitely be no performances of the musical before next week \u2014 and what happens beyond that date is uncertain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to see a route forward under the current rules, but we will do everything we can to come back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Other perplexed sources say the musical\u2019s advance is strong, and Lloyd Webber would be foolish to throw \u201cCinderella\u201d in the bin.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCinderella\u201d in London has faced struggles for more than a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. <\/figcaption>
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\u201cCinderella,\u201d which Lloyd Webber wrote with lyricist David Zippel and Oscar winner Emerald Fennell, is the latest victim of what the British press has dubbed \u201cthe pingdemic\u201d<\/a> \u2014 harsh, mandatory isolation rules in which anyone who comes in close contact with an infected person, as tracked by an app that pings your phone, must stay home for 10 days regardless of their vaccination status or negative test result. It\u2019s estimated that soon some 10 million Britons could be couch-bound.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The business-crippling strictures, which will be re-evaluated Aug. 16, have wreaked havoc on London\u2019s already-struggling theater business.<\/p>\n

In the past two weeks, big-budget musicals such as \u201cThe Prince of Egypt\u201d and\u00a0 \u201cHairspray\u201d have been forced to cancel weeks of performances <\/a>\u2014 even though most capacity and mask-wearing rules ended on Monday. \u201cJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,\u201d which is now back onstage at the Palladium, had to delay its start by 12 days earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese rules are the death knell for the West End,\u201d a source said. \u201cThe government doesn\u2019t care about us. They don\u2019t see us \u2014 until they turn up on our red carpets and ask to pose for pictures with our stars. Just take a look at [culture secretary] Oliver Dowden at \u2018Hairspray.\u2019 He couldn\u2019t wait to get a photo on the first preview with Michael Ball in his dress. Then, no less than a week later, \u2018Hairspray\u2019 is forced to close for a minimum of three weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

The only show currently running on the Great White Way, \u201cSpringsteen on Broadway,\u201d operates at 100 percent capacity, mandates audience members be vaccinated and has so far had no performance disruptions. But that production has just two performers \u2014 Bruce Springsteen and his wife, Patti Scialfa. <\/p>\n

Still, sources say Broadway should avoid the West End\u2019s money-draining turmoil. When the big Broadway musicals \u2014 such as \u201cWicked,\u201d \u201cHamilton,\u201d \u201cThe Lion King\u201d and \u201cMoulin Rouge!\u201d \u2014 return in September, the casts and crews will be required to be vaccinated, and anybody who tests positive for COVID will likely be sent home without canceling performances. <\/p>\n

\u201cI applaud London for taking so many steps forward for trying to get artists back to work, but this is why Broadway is waiting,\u201d a Broadway source said of New York theater\u2019s later return. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford a 10-day shutdown. We can\u2019t afford a two-week shutdown. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be more prepared come the fall with how to deal with this.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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