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Andrew Lloyd Webber condemns dynamic pricing for show tickets as 'racketeering' - amid backlash over high amounts paid by fans for Oasis concerts


Fans of the rock band were shocked by standard tickets for the reunion tour more than doubling on Ticketmaster last month, prompting the Government to pledge to look into the use of surge pricing.

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has condemned dynamic pricing for show tickets as ‘racketeering’ after the outcry over amounts paid by fans for Oasis concerts. The theatre impresario, whose hit musicals include The Phantom Of The Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, also criticised the lack of funding for the arts. His upcoming project is a new musical based on a film, which he is co-creating with writer Chris Terrio, who was behind the Oscar-winning 2012 movie Argo, according to The Sunday Times.

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