Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cinderella to close in the West End

Announcement that the show will end at London's Gillian Lynne theatre in June comes as a shock, with those who had been due to join the production expressing heartache

The curtain is to come down on Andrew Lloyd Webber's new West End musical Cinderella, just under a year after opening, with its final performance set for 12 June.

In a statement released on Sunday by Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group, the composer said mounting a new show in the midst of Covid has been an unbelievable challenge" and that a new production of Cinderella is to open on Broadway in 2023.