nervously approaches mass reopening in September, with casts and creatives terrified by the Delta variant, much of London’s West End has been happily chugging along since spring.Producers there have had to adapt to — or, in the case of Andrew Lloyd Webber, angrily shout about — constantly shifting rules, and bowed to the reality that it’s now or never.
Sorry, Mary Poppins. Nothing these days can be practically perfect in every way.Still, on a recent trip to London, I found a jaunty mood among locals and relatively full houses at long-running musicals.
It’s the exact landscape Broadway is dreaming of.Straight off the tarmac, I stopped by the Kings Arms pub in Chelsea, masked up, and asked the bartender if I was allowed to sit on a stool.
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