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Financial Lifeline for Theaters and Cinemas as Sydney Lockdown Is Extended

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Katherine Tulich The New South Wales state government is stepping in with A$75 million of emergency aid to the performing arts and music sectors as the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus is causing an extension of Sydney’s latest lockdown.The sold out “Hamilton” at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre, which opened on March 27, has shuttered again, and is grappling with a A$10 million loss.

It could now receive some of the relief money.“That (March) opening night feels like another world compared to what we are living now,” “Hamilton” producer Michael Cassel told Variety.

Cassel has also shuttered his Melbourne production of “Harry Potter and The Cursed Child” as that city has just announced a five-day snap lockdown as well.

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