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Composer Webber: "Impossible Conditions"
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When the mask requirement and other corona measures were lifted in Great Britain at the beginning of the week, the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber could not cheer: The 73-year-old had the premiere of his musical version of "Cinderella", which was to take place on Tuesday at the Gillian Lynne Theater in London , move.
An extra tested positive for Covid.
It was a "heartbreaking decision," Webber said in a statement.
Because of the pandemic, he had to interrupt work on the production several times, the first previews had already taken place in June 2020, the premiere should take place last August.
Webber, known for musical hits like "Phantom of the Opera", "Evita" or "Cats", and the author Emerald Fennell want to show the heroine of "Cinderella" not as a good girl, but as a rebellious young woman.
Now Webber accuses the Johnson administration of creating "impossible conditions" and criticizes the rules for self-isolating contact persons.
The theaters would already be on the ground anyway.
"Freedom Day became a day of closure," said Webber.
When there will be the green light for the performance is completely unclear.
"Possibly 2084".
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