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More shows will close and not reopen, UK Theatre chief warns

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More shows will close and not reopen and more theatres will go out of business, the chief of the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre has warned.

Producer Cameron Mackintosh has confirmed that the West End production of The Phantom Of The Opera has permanently closed, while the Theatre Royal in Plymouth and the Theatre Royal in Newcastle are among the venues announcing plans to make redundancies and Southampton’s Nuffield Theatres will close its doors for good.

UK Theatre chief executive Julian Bird told the PA news agency: “Our statistic at the very start of this was that around 70% of theatre productions said they would run out of money by the end of the year. “Now of course some things have helped that – the furlough scheme has

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