Saving All Their Love For 2021… Covid Forces The Greatest Love Of All Postponement In Joburg.
Joburg City Theatres and Producer Showtime Australia have today confirmed that next month’s season of The Greatest Love of All: A Tribute to Whitney Houston starring Belinda Davids will be postponed until August 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The show was scheduled to perform a four-week run of special orchestral concerts at Joburg Civic Theatre starting 5 June but due to strict South African COVID-19 restrictions regarding non-essential activity and large gatherings, organisers had no choice but to delay the full season.
Even with President Ramaphosa last week announcing plans to ease some restrictions by the end of May, Joburg Theatre’s 1000-seat venue isn’t expected to be reopened, or indeed operating at full capacity, until much later in the year.
Though star singer Belinda Davids is based in Cape Town, many of her support band and crew are foreign performers who are under lockdown or heavy restrictions in their own countries, so international travel bans were another factor in the decision.
The show’s producer Johnny Van Grinsven commented about the decision:
“We’re obviously devastated, but it’s pretty clear that this problem is going to be around longer than anyone first thought. We’re resilient though and we’ll use this year to keep working on production and behind the scenes elements so when we come back in 2021 the show will be worth the wait.”
The rescheduled season will run from 6 to 22 August 2021 at Joburg Theatre and tickets are already on sale at joburgtheatre.com. Ticket holders for this year’s concerts will be contacted by Joburg Theatre box office directly this week.
