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– Andrew Lloyd Webber is worried about getting audiences back to the theater, which is why he is now participating in a trial with coronavirus vaccines from Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. “I’m excited to be vaccinated tomorrow for the Oxford Covid 19 trial,” the composer said on Tuesday tweetje, by CNN. “I will do everything I can to prove that theaters can reopen safely.” He already held “a socially distant security pilot” at his London Palladium theater in July, reports the Evening Standard. The place was chemically cleaned before public members were allowed. They underwent temperature checks, sat at least two seats away from other audience members, and wore face masks during an hour-long performance of Beverley Knight.
Cameron Mackintosh, who owns several West End theaters, said the pilot “brilliantly exposed the artistic and commercial bankruptcy of trying to bring social distance to indoor mainstream theater.” Mackintosh, the stage producer responsible for shows like Hamilton and the Phantom of the Opera, had to dismiss most of his staff. “I’m still hope that by Easter next year most of my productions and some of our theaters will be able to reopen,” he says. Evening Standard. It is unclear when the British government will reopen theaters. Broadway shows will not start again until January 2021. At least, but actors applaud the movement of Lloyd Webber. “It’s so amazing how you lead from the front,” since Jeremy Secomb. “Your lord give us the help and hope we so need it,” adds Jennie Dale. (Read more stories about Andrew Lloyd Webber.)
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