Andrew Lloyd Webber Cinderella

Composer and London theatre owner Andrew Lloyd Webber (Phantom of the Opera) informed cast and creatives Sunday that his Cinderella musical will close at ...

There were delays over cast testing positive for Covid, plus for when Lloyd Webber and his team re-tooled the show. Cinderella, which opened last July, has suffered crippling losses not helped by delayed openings plus a temporary halt in performances last summer. Composer and London theatre owner Andrew Lloyd Webber (Phantom of the Opera) informed cast and creatives Sunday that his Cinderella musical will close at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, Covent Garden, London on June 12 after a troubled run of less than a year.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella will close its West End run on June 12th. The show is currently playing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella will close its West End run on June 12th. See you next March on Broadway." While mounting a new show in the midst of Covid has been an unbelievable challenge, we held the government's feet to the flames throughout their changes of heart during the pandemic."

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The musical which started previewing in the West End in June 2021 was constantly affected by the ongoing pandemic with the production delaying opening and ...

Lloyd Webber was forced to suspend performances from December 2021 eventually re-opening it in February 2022 when the Omicron variant hit the capital. Ongoing conflicts due to isolation policies meant that the opening night was moved once again to July before being finally rescheduled and able to open in August 2021. The original opening night planned for August 2020 at the Gillian Lynne Theatre was pushed to October and then to early 2021.

Webber teased a Broadway transfer in the West End closing announcement.

The contemporary take on the fairy tale stars Carrie Hope Fletcher (Heathers the Musical, Les Misérables) in the title role. While mounting a new show in the midst of Covid has been an unbelievable challenge, we held the government's feet to the flames throughout their changes of heart during the pandemic." See you next March on Broadway."

The show, which is being staged at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in Covent Garden, will end on June 12.

Curtains: Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella will close in June, less than one year after its West End premiere Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cinderella will close next month less than a year after its West End premiere. Final curtain for Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Covid-hit musical Cinderella as it leaves the stage less than a year after London premiere

Britain's theatre industry has reacted with uproar at Lloyd Webber's decision to shut down his Cinderella musical, as he faces claims he announced the ...

Writing in the Mail in December, Lloyd Webber had said: 'It has been a terrible few days and it is getting worse. Then in December, Cinderella was stopped due to 'Covid-related absences', alongside London productions of hit musicals Hamilton and The Lion King. Is there no respect for actors in Andrew Lloyd Webber's team?'. Another added: 'But honestly - after the shambles that is how Andrew Lloyd Webber treated everyone involved in Cinderella no one should touch his work. What we have to do is try to give the best performances possible. Certainly not the new Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries, who has made it abundantly clear that she doesn't think commercial theatre needs any support. Another added: 'But honestly - after the shambles that is how Andrew Lloyd Webber treated everyone involved in Cinderella no one should touch his work. 'I am nearly 74 and desperate to get back to writing again. Is there no respect for actors in Andrew Lloyd Webber's team?'. The All That Dazzles account tweeted: 'Cinderella has been one giant s**tshow from before it had even opened. Sending love to all impacted by today's news and by how that news was delivered'. One social media claimed: 'This West End Cinderella cancellation is crazy. And if I did I would probably be advised not to say them.

Announcement that the show will end at London's Gillian Lynne theatre in June comes as a shock, with those who had been due to join the production ...

The show’s arrival at the Gillian Lynne theatre in the West End was delayed by a year because of the pandemic. Broadway previews for Cinderella, presented with the production company No Guarantees, are set to begin in February 2023. The composer – who in 2017 quit as a Conservative peer, saying he was entering the busiest ever period of his career – has been outspoken about the government’s handling of the pandemic. A spokesperson for the Really Useful Group said on Monday: “Everyone involved in Cinderella was contacted by call, email or in person (some through agents) before the news went live in the evening. Summer Strallen, who had been due to join the Cinderella cast, said that she had found out about the early closure from reading a news story online and that her agent had been emailed the news. Carrie Hope Fletcher, who plays Cinderella, tweeted on Sunday night: “I don’t think I have the words … Sending love to all impacted by today’s news and by how that news was delivered.”

Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cinderella will close in the West End next month less than a year after its premiere. The show, which is being staged at the Gillian Lynne Theatre and has been hit with Covid-19 related disruption since the start, ...

Last July, Lloyd Webber said he was determined to open Cinderella in London and had at that stage ignored “siren voices” suggesting he moves it to Broadway. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cinderella will close in the West End next month less than a year after its premiere. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella to close in West End next month

Following a Herculean fight to opening night, the composer's musical is closing early. But it still deserves a standing ovation.

Many new musicals have closed sooner, and without the burden of a global pandemic. But Lloyd Webber has long been a Broadway favourite, and with a few months of retooling, this could yet be another successful British export. Although Cinderella’s opening was pushed back yet again to late June, the planned lifting of lockdown restrictions was further delayed and Lloyd Webber was forced to begin previews of his £6 million musical with 50 per cent capacity, at a loss of some £100,000 a week. At nearly three hours, it could use some judicious cuts, and it perhaps throws too wide a net in terms of its target audience – from colourful, larger-than-life characters that scream pantomime, through to sly satire on beauty standards that is decidedly more adult fare. It swiftly became a symbol of the plight of British theatre – especially commercial theatre – during the worst days of Covid, and how the government’s vacillating policies throttled our once-thriving industry. But Cinders will go to the ball again, when the show heads to Broadway in February 2023.

Actor Summer Strallen says she found out she had been "sacked" when a friend sent her a link to an article. Lord Lloyd Webber's Cinderella has previously ...

Who knows what the future will hold - I won't lose hope." Sending love to all impacted by today's news and by how that news was delivered." And if I did I would probably be advised not to say them.

It was recently revealed that the show, which starred Carrie Hope Fletcher as Cinderella, will close on June 12 in London, before being revamped for a Broadway ...

While mounting a new show in the midst of Covid has been an unbelievable challenge, we held the Government’s feet to the flames throughout their changes of heart during the pandemic. See you next March on Broadway!’ Sending love to all impacted by todays news and by how that news was delivered.’ I’m so sorry for not responding right now. Daisy Twells, who was due to join the ensemble, said: ‘Well this is definitely not the way I expected to write this but as most of you may know I was due to be making my West End Debut In the next cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella at the Gillian Lynne theatre as Ensemble and 1st cover for Adele and Marie the step sisters. I want to thank everyone so much for their messages.

Lloyd Webber announced Cinderella's closure at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, Covent Garden, London, to cast and creatives on Sunday, with the likes of Carrie Hope ...

Telling your friends and family you have something coming and can’t wait to tell them about it. Sending love to all impacted by today’s news and by how that news was delivered,’ she tweeted. Then you see a tweet and it’s all gone.’ Broadway previews for a new production of Cinderella, presented with the production company No Guarantees, are due to start in February 2023. Then, in late December, Lloyd Webber said he was ‘absolutely devastated’ that Cinderella had to close until February due to the Omicron variant. The show has had a troubled first year due to the pandemic, with Covid causing performers and crew members to isolate and shows to be cancelled when theatres closed.

The composer's glorious new musical deserves fuller audiences – and its talented workforce deserved to be given better warning about its future.

“We led the charge to reopen the West End,” said Lloyd Webber in his statement about the early closure. It’s the sort of coup de théâtre that you’d imagine would have helped to win audiences back when the industry was promoting the unrivalled thrill of live entertainment during the pandemic. Summer Strallen, who had been due to take over the role of the Queen and went for a wig fitting as recently as last week, said that her diary was also now unexpectedly and alarmingly empty. Victoria Hamilton-Barritt – inexplicably the only cast or creative from the show to earn an Olivier nomination – is still a haughty hoot as the Stepmother, while Georgina Castle and Laura Baldwin are a double whammy of wicked vanity as her daughters. Gloria Onitiri is in such blazing voice as the Godmother that you long for her to have a bigger part. But after a troubled run that included umpteen opening night postponements and a shutdown of several weeks amid the Omicron crisis, Lloyd Webber’s latest attraction is to close early, despite London tourism beginning to bounce back from its 2020-21 lows and the West End’s footfall slowly returning towards pre-pandemic levels.