Lloyd Webber urges UK to set date for theatres to open at full capacity

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British theatres urgently need to be given a date when they can reopen at full capacity if they are to survive the coronavirus pandemic, composer and theatre owner Andrew Lloyd Webber told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. The man behind a string of hit musicals including Cats, The Phantom Of The

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LONDON - British theatres urgently need to be given a date when they can reopen at full capacity if they are to survive the coronavirus pandemic, composer and theatre owner Andrew Lloyd Webber told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.

"We know that theatre cannot operate with social distancing," he told parliament's culture committee, adding that the pilot at the London Palladium had been loss-making even though the star, singer Beverley Knight, had performed for free. Lloyd-Webber said venues could operate safely at full capacity with one-way systems, hand sanitiser stations, contactless payments, face coverings, anti-bacterial door handles and fogging, a disinfection technique.

Lloyd Webber said the live performance sector, which employs more than a million people, was on its knees."Britain is the leader in world theatre in my view, in many, many ways, and we really, really have got to use this opportunity not only just to say that we want to get our sector open but to demonstrate to the world how it can be open."

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