A letter from Andrew Lloyd Webber, learn on stage at the closing evening of Cinderella, prompt that opening his new musical in the course of the pandemic “might need been a pricey mistake”.
The musical completed its run on the Gillian Lynne theatre in London on Sunday after heavy criticism for the way in which wherein a few of its workforce had discovered of its closure on social media. Boos might be heard within the viewers when Lord Lloyd-Webber’s letter was learn out by the present’s director, Laurence Connor. Within the letter, the composer praised a “fabulous solid, crew and musicians” and “the excellent inventive crew” and repeated his earlier assertion that he had “saved the federal government’s toes to the flame” in the course of the Covid disaster wherein the theatre business weathered shutdowns, restricted capacities and extreme monetary difficulties.
The letter continued: “I hold pondering, if solely we had opened three months later we wouldn’t have needed to postpone our opening twice due to Covid. If solely we hadn’t needed to shut for a month over Christmas and New Yr, as soon as once more due to Covid. And if solely we had had a crumb of assist from [the government’s culture recovery fund], I promise you we'd have been right here for a really lengthy whereas to return.”
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In the direction of the top, Lloyd Webber’s letter learn: “It might need been a pricey mistake, however I'm proud that we did [it] and happy with everybody who supported me.” After important criticism on the suggestion the present was a “pricey mistake”, a spokesperson from the composer’s Actually Helpful Group mentioned that the phrase was “by no means meant to narrate to the manufacturing itself, extra the myriad of challenges which the manufacturing has confronted due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which the complete textual content of the letter makes clear”. On Monday afternoon the composer launched an announcement saying “I'm very sorry if my phrases have been misunderstood” and including that he thanked everybody concerned in his “beloved” manufacturing for all that they had finished.
In a submit on Instagram, Cinderella’s star Carrie Hope Fletcher mentioned that over her three years on the undertaking, from the primary workshop to the ultimate present, there had been “many highs and lows however general I’m glad to have stood in Cinderella’s glass slippers … It’s been a ball.”
A brand new manufacturing of Cinderella is to open on Broadway in 2023. The Gillian Lynne theatre will subsequent current a manufacturing of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which has been on a UK tour.
A fairytale’s ending: Cinderella’s troubled timeline
10 January 2020
Information introduced that Andrew Lloyd Webber is creating a brand new model of Cinderella with author Emerald Fennell and lyricist David Zippel.
14 February 2020
Carrie Hope Fletcher introduced in lead position for musical, set to open in August 2020.
5 March 2020
As Covid causes disruption, announcement made that the primary preview will now be delayed to 9 October owing to “present international circumstances”.
8 July 2020
Opening evening delayed to March 2021. “The present will completely go on, just a bit later than I’d hoped,” says Lloyd Webber.
4 June 2021
Far Too Late tune launched for musical, which is now as a result of open in July.
8 June 2021
Lloyd Webber says he's decided to open Cinderella at full capability and able to threat arrest in doing so.
18 June 2021
Composer slams “authorities delay and confusion” and says Cinderella won't be a part of a pilot scheme for reopening theatres, as prompt by the prime minister.
25 June 2021
First preview takes place on the Gillian Lynne theatre.
19 July 2021
Press evening cancelled at quick discover owing to a Covid case within the solid; Lloyd Webber criticises “inconceivable situations created by the blunt instrument that's the authorities’s isolation steering”.
18 August 2021
Cinderella lastly opens to critics, receiving 5 stars within the Guardian.
21 December 2021
Cinderella performances halted due to Omicron and can restart “as quickly as this wave is licked”, says Lloyd Webber.
3 February 2022
Cinderella reopens.
1 Could 2022
Closure introduced. “Thanks very a lot to everybody concerned, significantly our UK audiences who've beloved and supported the present,” says Lloyd Webber.
12 June 2022
Remaining efficiency on the Gillian Lynne theatre.
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