HOW SHOWS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE FALLING VICTIM

CABARET at the Kit Kat Club yesterday confirmed that performances would be cancelled for the rest of the week after members of the company tested positive.

MOULIN ROUGE! reopened at the Piccadilly theatre on Monday after a ten-day Covidenforced break.

CINDERELLA was cancelled last night. No news yet on tonight’s performance.

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s COMEDY OF ERRORS at the Barbican has cancelled everything until December 22.

The press night for HEX, at the National Theatre, a major new musical based on Sleeping Beauty has already been postponed once and has now been shunted back to 2022.

THE LION KING, at the Lyceum, has been off since Tuesday and yesterday announced further cancellations due to ‘ongoing Covidenforced absences’ among cast and crew.

HAMILTON, at Victoria Palace Theatre, had been due to resume following the cancellation of Wednesday’s evening show, but yesterday it was announced that producers were not able to make it work.

LIFE OF PI at Wyndham’s Theatre pulled five shows from December 9 to 13. London’s Southwark Playhouse has closed its new musical THE RHYTHMICS — described as Calendar Girls meets The Full Monty — three weeks early, after ‘disruption caused by ongoing illness and Covid-related absences in the company’.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME at the Troubadour theatre in Wembley Park had cancelled performances until today.

Performances of The Donmar Warehouse’s FORCE MAJEURE, starring Rory Kinnear, were cancelled this week from Tuesday to

Thursday, due to cases of Covid-19 in the company.

MARIA CALLAS LETTERS AND MEMOIRS at Her Majesty’s theatre, has been postponed until April 2022. Theatregoers with tickets for the BOOK OF MORMON at the Manchester Palace were given 90 minutes’ notice that Tuesday and Wednesday evening shows had been cancelled this week.

There has also been widespread pantomime pandemonium around the country.

The Brighton Centre’s ALADDIN, starring Anita Dobson, has been postponed until 2022 due to ‘the uncertainty and risk surrounding the Omicron variant of Covid-19’.

PETER PAN at The Chrysalis Theatre in Milton Keynes was cancelled after junior cast members tested positive.

Performances of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre

have been suspended since December 8 and will not resume until December 18, at the earliest.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK from the Big Pembrokeshire Panto in Tenby, due to star The Only Way Is Essex’s James Argent, has been cancelled.

RAPUNZEL at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge will now finish early.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews, Scotland, has been cancelled.