Andrew Lloyd Webber volunteered to obtain an experimental coronavirus vaccine (COVID-19) from a medical trial.
The award-winning composer, 72, announced his resolve to take part in the exam in a tweet wednesday, writing, “I’m very happy that I’m being scut on for the Oxford Covid 19 essay. I’ll do everything I can to make it happen that cinemas can reopen safely.”
The University of Oxford has developed an experimental vaccine called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, according to the BBC. The medium reports that the effects have been promising and researchers have recruited more than 10,000 people in the UK for the next level of the medical trial.
Webber’s tweet comes after former manufacturer Cameron Mackintosh showed that they had stopped production of Phantom of the Opera in the West End after 34 years due to a “big monetary blow” to coronavirus closures.
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“In the absence of an end in the face of this crisis, last week I had to bring out the terrible reduction of my organization [sic] for the survival of my business,” Mackintosh wrote in an essay for the Evening Standard last July. .
“In the most sensible of that, Andrew and I unfortunately had to be more sensitive to our traveling productions in London and the UK for The Phantom of the Opera, yet we are determined to bring him back to London in the future.”
Since then, Webber has promised to restart production, writing on Twitter: “As far as I’m concerned, Phantom will reopen as soon as possible.”
Theatrical productions around the world have been heavily affected amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In the United States, Broadway has been in the dark since March 12, and the Broadway League, the national industry deal representing the theater industry, declared in June that all Great White Way productions will be suspended for the rest of the year.
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Since the end of the performances, thousands of people in the industry have run out of paintings, from actors and musicians to machinists and bailiffs and more. Times Square companies that opt for movie theater consumers have also noticed their finances falling sharply.
Several open Broadway exhibitions recently announced that they had closed permanently. The legacy, torturers and revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett were some of those who shortened their long term.
On Wednesday, there were more than 5,196,500 COVID-19s in the United States and 165,400 deaths from coronavirus-related diseases, the New York Times reported.
Worldwide, there have been at least 20445252 cases of coronavirus and 745229 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University’s knowledge.
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