Sadler's Who?
ALTERNATIVELY, Mr Murdoch could send for Sir Richard Eyre. That is what Chris Smith did at the Ministry of Culture. Sir Richard does not quite tell us why Covent Garden will get through a fortune and end up employing more people and losing more money, but he takes us on a guided tour of what he calls the London lyric theatre estate: Covent Garden, the Coliseum, which houses English National Opera, and Sadler's Wells. Sadler's who? Quite. I am not sure how many of Covent Garden's City friends could find their way there. (Clue: it is beyond the Barbican, if they can find that.) Its subsidy is only 2 per cent of Covent Garden's or 3 per cent of ENO's. What Sadler's Wells has done, all the same, is to build a new theatre and put its finances in order.
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