![]() ![]() About 8,000 audience members who had seen the show over the prior 14 days were also notified about the case and urged to avoid contact with other people if possible.Īfter a three-week hiatus, "The Phantom of the Opera" raised its curtain again on April 23 and the theater was once again filled with enthusiastic audience members who braved the pandemic. The theater was locked down and all other cast and crew were tested and went into quarantine for two weeks. The show's biggest crisis came when an ensemble member was confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 in late March. It has just functioned so efficiently," Lyon said. "Everyone backstage is wearing masks unless you're obviously in costume and about to go on stage. They've kept us afloat," Lyon is quoted as saying in the Sydney Morning Herald. "But I'm also extremely proud of our show and our producers and the way they haven't given up on us. While other productions of the musical in North America, Britain, Italy and Australia have been shut down indefinitely, the Seoul company strives to keep its doors open with rigid safety measures.Ĭlaire Lyon from Australia, who plays the show's diva Christine Daae, said there is a survivor's guilt, in a way, as she continues to perform here while most shows in Australia have been closed early or canceled due to COVID-19 shutdown and some of her colleagues have performed their last show without knowing it would be their last. The show is the longest-running show on Broadway, but the world's most glamorous theater districts of Broadway in New York and West End in London have been dark for months to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. The world-famous musical has been showing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The international touring production of the musical "The Phantom of the Opera," currently on stage at Blue Square in central Seoul, has set a record despite bad timing. ![]() Korean theater safety measures catch attention of British culture secretary Jonathan Roxmouth as Phantom and Claire Lyon as Christine in a scene from "The Phantom of the Opera" currently staged at Blue Square in Seoul amid COVID-19 outbreak / Courtesy of S&CO
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