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Fired UK bankers offered free theater tickets

Mimi Turner
Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:37am EDT
Andrew Lloyd Webber speaks to reporters as he arrives at the White House for the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, December 3, 2006. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - It might be small consolation to the estimated 5,000 London staffers of bankrupt investment bank Lehman Bros. who lost their jobs Monday, but theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber is offering free tickets to pink-slipped employees between now and October 15.

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Bank staff who are able to produce a bank P45 form -- the UK employment document handed out to those who have been fired -- dated after September 1 will be eligible for free tickets to Lloyd Webber shows "The Sound of Music" and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" -- subject, of course, to availability.

"Both 'The Sound of Music' and 'Joseph' are feel-good shows, and I thought that free tickets might offer some respite, albeit for a couple of hours, for some of those people who have sadly lost their jobs in the current economic upheaval," Lloyd Webber said.

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