Andrew Lloyd Webber has said he is confident there will be "an audience in droves" when live theatre returns and he is a "cock-eyed optimist" this will be by spring next year.
The composer, who took part in the Oxford Covid vaccine trial, has announced the reopening of most of his theatres after the venues were closed due to the pandemic.
Previews of his new musical Cinderella, written by The Crown star Emerald Fennell, will begin on April 30 at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London's West End.
He told The Andrew Marr Show: "One cannot be 101% sure that it's going to be possible but my hunch is that a combination of the fact that treatments are getting better now, even to those unfortunate enough to have to go to hospital, but I also think
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