coronavirus pandemic, and wants to ‘prove’ they can survive. The musical theatre legend, 72, is most famous for his work on some of the world’s most iconic musicals, and he is determined not to let theatres die out.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘[It’s been] absolutely awful to see everything that I’ve loved in my life gone. I want to prove that they can be open.‘What I hope to do is to be able to demonstrate to the Government what has happened in Korea, at The London Palladium, hopefully in the first week of July…‘We’re going to do a whole series of tests there to see whether or not it’s going to work.I really believe that we in theatre must be positive and use everything we can to demonstrate we can open.