Legendary British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is going to experience a whole set of safety measures during performances in the theater “London palladium”. As reported by Lloyd Webber in the BBC Radio 4 Today, will be applied by the same methods provided a showing of the musical “the phantom of the Opera” in South Korea. The composer intends to show the British government it is possible to resume normal operation of the theatres without social distancing.To allow the audience to go back to the hall after the peak of the crisis, the theater of Seoul had to spend a lot to provide the premises with specialized equipment. According to Lloyd Webber, the main advantage of Korean courts — impeccable cleanliness and sanitation of the backstage area in the hall and the orchestra pit. In addition, the entrance installed infrared cameras on them in may in an interview with the Stage newspaper said the Executive Director of LW Theatres Rebecca Kane Burton. Camera remotely measures the temperature of the person and the instrument panel shows whether it can enter the building. If the signal is positive, starts up the airlock, the door opens and people can enter.Photo: ReutersЧто as for London, almost all of the necessary equipment is already delivered to the palladium, the tests can be held in early July. The theatre can accommodate more than 2, 3 thousand seats and is the largest in the group LW Theatres. The experiment will show whether the audience is safe to be in the hall at a regular distance from each other. This will not only make the stay in the theatre more familiar and allows you to see the performance of a greater number of people, but also help to avoid losses from forced nedorogaja tickets. Due to the social distance of the theatres is necessary to reduce the occupancy of the halls by 80%. Many venues need to fill the hall at least half, so as not to suffer losses.According to a recent report from Oxford Economics, the pandemic is Britain facing irreversible “cultural catastrophe.” According to preliminary estimates, the creative industry may lose 74 billion pounds and about 400 thousand jobs. A group of hundreds of actors, Directors and writers have appealed to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and Minister of culture Dodano Oliver’s warning that the British theatre is on the verge of ruin, and the rooms don’t have money to stay afloat with the observance of social distance.Lord Lloyd Webber said that he talked to Doudenum and was waiting for government decisions on the future of theatre. It is hoped that there will not be the Council who received the field of musicals in the era of coronavirus: “You are not allowed to sing.”Also recently, Phoebe Waller-bridge, James McAvoy and other famous actors called on the government to take measures to prevent��tion of the collapse of the sector. Toby Jones, Andrew Scott and sir Tom Stoppard have added their names to an open letter, which stated that the British theater “is on the verge of ruin” and faced “existential threat.”Daria Chertkov
