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| | Guardian | Old Vic and New London theatres top wish list as home for RSC |
 | | Top of its wish list are the Old Vic at Waterloo - a theatre thick with ghosts of RSC glories past - and Andrew Lloyd Webber's slightly less gilded New London on Drury Lane, home for most of the past 20 years to the composer's musical cash cow Cats, based on TS Eliot's poems. |
 | | While the Old Vic, which is run by a starry trust including the actor Kevin Spacey under the gavel of producer Sally Greene, has tradition and a well-known location on its side, its bars and front-of-house are pokey, and it desperately needs a new roof. |
 | | The New London, a former TV studio, may be utilitarian and dull, but it does have plenty of bar and entertaining space, and, crucially, it is a theatre in the round, which would allow the RSC to bring productions from Stratford relatively unaltered. |
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