Lord Webber said: ‘I’ve had a couple of phone calls with Oliver Dowden about it, the Culture Secretary. I would love to say that they understand it a little more.
‘I have seen a report – I don’t know what’s going to be in the [final] report that comes out one Monday, but I sincerely hope that it contains some of things I’ve seen in their advice.
‘One of which is a brilliant one for musicals, which is that you are not allowed to sing.’
A representative for Lord Webber told MailOnline the government advice he was referring to applied to singing on stage specifically.
Words fail me.
The singers could be replaced with those people who appear in the corner of your screen doing hand signs for deaf people. Or we could do a prog rock musical that only has the instrumentals in it. We could copy the video for Bob Dylan’s Sub Terrainian Homesick Blues where he has the lyrics written on pieces of card that he throws away one by one. The possibilities are endless.
Well they have already got rid of all the consonants.
Longrider, your comments are taking minutes to appear. Maybe you already know.
Yeah, not sure what’s going on there.
Okay, I disabled all the plugins and then reactivated them. Seems to have worked.
Marcel Marceau the musical. Stage versions of silent movies. The Trappist Monks Musical. A version of Chess where we cut out the songs and just play chess. I’ve got loads more.
Then of course they can still do Hamilton, I don’t think that rapping qualifies as singing.
Rap does not qualify as music. It is a nasty discordant chanting.
Heard about this on Radio 4 during the week. Lord Webber has already proved in Korea that the concept is safe, as the article says it needs masses of hygiene but not social distancing. Apart from that the theatrical experience is as usual (except no bar which buts a downer on things).
Obviously he won’t be allowed to do it here because the press would report it as Lockdown Letout for posh people only.
*speechless* (like the artists)