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Dateline: 12th December, 2006
Carmina Burana Company Collapses The company behind the UK tour of Andalucian Images of Carmina Burana, Vert Limited trading as Carmina Burana, has gone into liquidation with debts of £218,000 against assets of £80,000, a deficit of £138,000. The autumn leg of the UK tour was cancelled and the company had tried to renegotiate contracts with produciton company La Caudra de Sevilla and with venues, but this proved impossible and so the show, which has a cast of thirty, was closed and now its touring management is in liquidation. A statement from the liquidators, Harris Lipman, says: "The choral show, which features Spanish choreography, flamenco, guitars and two famous Andalusian stallions had been very successful throughout Europe. As a result, the show was brought to theatres throughout Britain. The tour commenced on the 3 April running through to the 22 July, with the intention of bringing it back in the Autumn of 2006 with further theatre bookings being made. "The company was run by James Wood who has considerable experience in the theatre but booking levels were considerably lower than he had projected and costs were not being met. Therefore a number of cost cutting measures were taken. However cancelling the shows would have resulted in damages claims against the company for breach of contract. Instead the economies undertaken included a re-negotiation of the contract with the Spanish company, La Caudra de Sevilla, re-negotiated deals with the theatres and a general reduction in overheads. "Regrettably all of these measures did not stem the losses and due to continuing poor box office revenue the proposed second phase of the autumn tour was cancelled with the company having to be placed into liquidation." Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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