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Hamilton and The Phantom of the Opera, won’t reopen until next year, producers announced Wednesday, as arts bodies warned that Britain faces a “cultural catastrophe” because of the coronavirus pandemic.Producer Cameron Mackintosh, his producing partners and his Delfont Mackintosh Theatres group said Hamilton, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins and Les Miserables, would return “as early as practical in 2021.”The company said it was talking to staff about “potential redundancies.”Mackintosh,

Many major West End productions are staying closed.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticBlasting the British government for what he says has been “no tangible practical support,” producer Cameron Mackintosh says his company’s West End productions of Hamilton, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins and Les Miserables won’t reopen until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.“This decision is heart-breaking for me,” Mackintosh said in a statement, “as I am sure it is for my employees, as everyone who has worked with me over the last 50 years,

Some of London's biggest West End shows, including Hamilton and The Phantom of the Opera, won't reopen until next year, producers announced Wednesday, as arts bodies warned that Britain faces a "cultural catastrophe" because of the coronavirus pandemic.

LONDON -- Some of London’s biggest West End shows, including “Hamilton” and “The Phantom of the Opera,” won’t reopen until next year, producers announced Wednesday, as arts bodies warned that Britain faces a “cultural catastrophe” because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Musical giants Les Miserables, Mary Poppins, Hamilton and The Phantom Of The Opera will not return to the West End this year, Sir Cameron Mackintosh said as he urged the Government to “take action”.

“We will be back, but we need time to get back"

Cameron Mackintosh, one of the biggest names in British theater, has said that stage productions in the West End and on Broadway are unlikely to open until 2021. "For major producers both sides of the Atlantic, the truth is until social distancing doesn't exist anymore, we can't even plan to reopen," he said in an interview on BBC Radio 2 on Sunday.

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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 and a local production company that had dreamed of one day staging the hit musical.