When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera” opened in Greece this year, it marked the country’s most ambitious theater production to date, with an all-star cast plucked from London’s West End…
star Ben Forster, who played “Phantom” in London’s long-running production, and in the Greek show , had boarded an Athens-bound flight from London, where he’d returned briefly for a BBC Radio concert at Royal Albert Hall.
When they did eventually shutter between March 15-16, with London grappling with 407 coronavirus cases, it was of their own accord rather than by government decree, unlike the governments of other countries that took swift action with bans, helping to ease insurance headaches for businesses. “Our government has really let our industry down,” says Naaman, “because if you’re being told it’s not essential to close and you know that every night you can remain open limits the damage to your livelihood, it’s a very human instinct to want to hang on for as long as possible.”
, up to £2,500 per month, such measures only protect retained workers and not freelancers, who can only access a Universal Credit allowance of £94 per week for a single person over 25. “I was calling the West End and no one batted an eye or was interested,” says Brown, who has put the brakes on two shows eyeing West End transfers, “Night of the Living Dead” and “Bruce’s Billions.”
“We are reliant on our audiences and we are doing everything we can to ensure survival, but thus far, the government measures and insurance don’t help us in any way,” he says, noting that most U.K. policies don’t cover communicable diseases, such as Covid-19, or forced closure.
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