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The Lorna Hill Sadler's Wells books, especially the earlier ones with Veronica, Sebastian and Caroline, were my absolute favourite ballet fiction when I was a teenager. I was never going to be a dancer myself, but I definitely ascribe some of my love of ballet now to reading them over and over. Yes, same here. I'm so sad that my eldest daughter, who is a total bookworm, has no interest in ballet whatsover and refuses to read them!

I've just watched the first episode and enjoyed it - it's very much docu-drama, but they went through the audition process for the various levels of the school and will clearly follow a couple of dancers at each level throughout the series. I know very little about Balenchine, so I found it very interesting. We are at the tail end of a 6-month free Disney Plus subscription with O2 so that might be worth looking into for anyone with O2.

Agreed - she was the highlight of the MET lockdown gala for me. I am looking forward to this.

I've had my March and June bookings refunded. I've still got one more to come for July, but that was the last tranche of performances cancelled so will be in the last batch of refunds I expect.

I've been wondering this as well. Not just for theatre, but for museums and galleries as well which I would, in theory, be happy to visit again with appropriate measures in place. Just no idea how I would actually get to and from them ...

I’d be interested to hear what they say. I was thinking about taking a year off my Friends Membership for personal financial reasons before this crisis anyway, so it was the deciding factor for me not to renew, so I haven’t contacted them myself. As a comparison, out of the various Arts memberships I have, I’ve heard from the V&A (no mention of extending the membership period) and Dulwich Picture Gallery (which will be extending theirs).

I’ve had two renewal letters with no mention of extending to those who renew (my renewal date was 31 March).

Yes, it's rather buried in the middle of a paragraph, isn't it? I actually missed it the first time I read the email, and only noticed it when I went back to it (after I had part-donated my ticket).

I've just had an email to confirm that the remainder of the season at the ROH is now cancelled (I had tickets to Tosca).

My Friends + ,membership lapsed a grand total of 9 days ago, yet they've managed to remove me from the Friends mailing list already which has amused me (I would have happily renewed my Friends membership if there had been any mention made of extending it by the amount the ROH is going to be closed. The V&A did the same to me out of interest). I'm pleased there is an option to donate part of the ticket price now. I suspect I wasn't the only person to suggest this. I also note that credits are now valid for performances up to 31 August 2021. These are tehe productions cancelled from the ROH website. So not the total rest of the season - I have tickets to Tosca in early July for example.: Live Fire Exercise / Prodigal Son / Corybantic Games Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci Swan Lake Tristan und Isolde The Dante Project La bohème Heritage Spring Gala Elektra Tombeaux / Monotones I and II / Symphonic Dances The Turn of the Screw Lucia di Lammermoor Next Generation Festival She Described it to Death WNO: The Nightingale / Bluebeard's Castle

Yes, opera as well.

Agreed - I thought exactly the same and I'm going to email the Box Office to that effect. I would love to be able to donate the full price of my ticket, but my husband works in travel and our own future is far from certain and I did consider a half way option of being able to donate 50% of the ticket price as a good solution.

Just seen that ROH have created an FAQ page for coronavirus queries on their website: https://www.roh.org.uk/visit/covid19-faqs?fbclid=IwAR2dODibG4LT06LQ6vChGqFmsrFxYyciCbRFAmmEHLdOsY0ORkC3FxLXR-4

Agreed. The only measures I saw on Friday night were the cloakroom staff were wearing disposable gloves and there was a notice on the swing door on the way out of the Ladies about washing hands. But no soap in the loo I was in (one of the ones with the sink inside the cubicle).

Just had an email to say due to illness, Natalia Osipova has been replaced by Marianela Nuñez as Tatiana.' for this Friday (7th February).