“I gathered together the Ring company, we’re talking about many people, and I said to them there’s no easy way to say this, ‘in the context of everything going on we have no option but to cancel the Ring and cancel rehearsals with immediate effect’. And it was a very emotional moment, there were a lot of tears.” - Lyric’s Anthony Freud talking about Friday, March 13, when he had to break the news to the cast and crew working on the Ring.