{"id":34449,"date":"2020-07-25T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/andrew-lloyd-webbers-trial-live-performance-was-inspiring-and-weird\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T19:05:00","slug":"andrew-lloyd-webbers-trial-live-performance-was-inspiring-and-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andrew-lloyd-webbers-trial-live-performance-was-inspiring-and-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"#Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s trial live performance was inspiring and weird"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s trial live performance was inspiring and weird<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 25, 2020 |<\/span> 3:05pm |<\/span> Updated July 25, 2020 | 3:09pm<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Live theater seems an eternity away in New York, where Broadway shows are on hiatus until at least Jan. 3. But in London, an in-person performance at a major theater was held this past week.<\/p>\n

Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of \u201cThe Phantom of the Opera\u201d and \u201cCats,\u201d hosted a trial run Thursday of a concert for invited guests and media at his London Palladium. Theaters there have been locked up since March.<\/p>\n

Singer Beverly Knight and her band\u2019s gig was meant to demonstrate the venue\u2019s new safety measures, while giving an eerie glimpse at a potential coronavirus future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI must say this is a rather sad sight,\u201d Lloyd Webber, 72, said looking out at the 600-strong audience with some 1,900 unoccupied seats covered in paper Xs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so grateful to you all for coming and being a sort of guinea pig like this, but the Palladium is meant to be full. It\u2019s a theater that wants to love you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some have said that if theaters were cathedrals, his Palladium \u2014 with ornate, sprawling lobbies and 2,500 seats \u2014 would be the Vatican. And, like at the Vatican, mass as we know it is now on hold.<\/p>\n

Playing the part of the Pope, a hopeful but staunch Lloyd Webber insisted the night would \u201cprove why social distancing in the theater really doesn\u2019t work. It\u2019s a misery for the performers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even so, his bold experiment offers some optimism for New Yorkers 3,500 miles away, who will likely get nothing of the sort \u2018til next spring. It\u2019s a thrill just to know that someone, somewhere is performing on a stage.<\/p>\n

And there will be more to come. The UK government will start allowing theaters to operate with reduced capacity houses and social distancing in place beginning Aug. 1. But even Lloyd Webber has said that having room to spread out isn\u2019t financially viable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe average play needs a 65 percent capacity and a musical needs more,\u201d he told the BBC last week. \u201cAll we want is clarity and consistency.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday, audience members described an experience similar to what Broadway theatergoers are already accustomed to \u2014 a winding line on the street outside the venue taking roughly 15 minutes to get inside.<\/p>\n

Novel, however, were the mandatory face masks, temperature checks, updated HVAC system and \u201cStar Trek\u201d-like air seals that are all now a part of the package. Alcoholic drinks weren\u2019t banned \u2014 or forcibly served with a sandwich \u2014 but delivered by helpful ushers directly to seats.<\/p>\n

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Under happ<\/a>ier circumstances, actor Jac Yarrow would have been wearing a rainbow robe on the Palladium stage that night as the title role in Lloyd Webber\u2019s \u201cJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.\u201d Instead he was an inspired viewer.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing back in a theater after so long was so surreal,\u201d Yarrow told The Post. \u201cEveryone was doing it because we love theater, and we want it to come back as it was before. It was a piece of history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve done it brilliantly,\u201d a source in the audience added. \u201cSeamless. They\u2019ve outdone any other industry I\u2019ve seen. As Andrew said, you\u2019re safer here than on Oxford Street.\u201d<\/p>\n

But like Lloyd Webber, the source also cautioned that being masked and far away from others can feel like \u201can anesthetic\u201d for an audience that cannot laugh easily or fill a room with pre-show buzzing. Everybody is in a clamor for the return to 100-percent capacity.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoseph\u201d will be back at the Palladium next summer with, Yarrow believes, a full \u2014 and full-throated \u2014 house.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Joseph\u2019 is such a well-loved musical,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone knows it. Sometimes I sing \u2018Any Dream Will Do,\u2019 and the audience will sing along!\u201d<\/p>\n

For live theater, that\u2019s the only dream that will do.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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