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    They probably still won't know, even after the first night 😁🙃😆
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    My friends have the same approximate time to catch their last decent train home. They are waiting on me to tell them if they need to try to stay over or not, and I can't help them 😬 with no information from the ROH. However, based on Floss's kind calculation from previous performances of 1hour 47minutes of dancing, say 1hour 50mins, plus two intervals of 30mins each max, that's a 10.20pm finish, I think.....
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    Thank you so much Floss for looking those up (I didn't think of looking at past timings), and doing the job that an ROH employee could have done if they could have been bothered. Once again, it displays their indifference (or ignorance) of the fact that not everyone lives in London and many have travelled for two or more hours to see a performance and have to make the same journey back afterwards.
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    Does anyone know please the full running time including intervals of this production, as I can't seem to find a 'finishes at time' anywhere on the ROH website? Thank you in anticipation.
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    I found myself welling up a few times. Very worthwhile programme, and well done DB. I thought she was genuinely moved at times, and the decision to leave in the remark from one of the dementia sufferers, when she said, and I paraphrase, You used to be a ballet dancer, not that silly come dancing stuff, was a brave one.
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    Oh boy, that is exciting, saw it twice in the summer, but would love to see it again! Hope it's the recent Scarlett production!
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    I have looked, but can't see any TV listings for ballet performances or docs, as there usually are over Christmas, for this year. Does anyone know if we are to get any ballet treats on TV over the festive period?
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    Apologies to the homeless, by the way. Remarks about rothbart not meant to offend anyone, I should have thought that one out a bit better.
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    Just back from Bristol opening night. A curate's egg. Corps superb. Shale Wagman (Neapolitan) wow - couldn't take my eyes off him. Definitely one to watch for the future. Francisco Frola danced a convincing Siegfried. Erina Takahashi knew the steps......and had Rothbart fallen on hard times and been sleeping on the street? He certainly looked like it with his big beard and dreadlocks. Also, with the weird storyline anomallies having been ironed out in the new RB production, they stood out like a sore thumb in this one. Siegfried leaving the stage when he is supposed to be choosing a bride, Rothbart coming to the ball as a big hairy bird thing, the foreign princesses all dressed the same and with no link to their retinues costume wise. Hmm. Anyway, the orchestra played with relish and the corps danced beautifully and with precision. .
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    I don't know. The cynic in me thinks that it is pretty unusual to use a non-principal dancer on a poster, and that they are using it as an advertising ploy to show how inclusive they are and it suggests that there will be a black dancer dancing the lead at some point. In fact this is what my (black) friend and we're led to believe and indeed why held off from buying tickets in the hope of such an event, obviously not to be.
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    You mean because she's not got the crown on?
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    I am baffled to see that there are still gaps in the ENB casting for Swan Lake at the Bristol Hippodrome with less than two weeks to go! I am also rather confused that Precious Adams was used on the poster as Odette, and yet, disappointingly, doesn't seem to have been cast in the role. Does anyone have any information that might clarify things? Is she injured? I have to say that this very late casting doesn't instill me with confidence in any way.
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    Would love to go, but £55! I would want them to be dancing again for that....😁
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    Prob been mentioned elsewhere, but 'Dancer' film is on BBC2 tonight 11pm https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?sd=22-09-2018 23:00
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    Oh, this is a shock, as he was only quite recently interviewed by Darcey B for her Ballet Heroes programme and he looked wonderful. I remember him telling this story: "At New York City Ballet, everybody was on my side, whatever we did. There were a couple of instances where we would do a television program and the producers said, “Well you can’t do that piece with the black guy.” [New York City Ballet artistic director and choreographer George] Balanchine said, “If Mitchell doesn’t dance, New York City Ballet doesn’t dance.” There were parents of some of the girls in the company who were upset about my dancing with their daughters, and Balanchine said, “Then take them out of the company.” So I danced in every ballet, in Swan Lake, in Nutcracker—everything. There weren’t roles that were consigned for black dancers. There were just roles for a dancer."
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    I am hoping that Precious Adams will be dancing Odette one night, as she was used on the poster.
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    Oh, it was only when I was looking through the casting to see when Aaron Robison would be dancing that I realised he's gone 😟 once again, the rate of turnover at the ENB gives me cause for concern. I struggled to recognise more than a couple of people in the group photograph..... BTW, I was wondering what Rupert Pennefather has been doing since leaving the RB in 2015? I look forward to his Des Grieux.
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    Oh, now that sounds more exciting 😊 I look forward to that! Thank you.
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    Sadly, this is the first year ever that there is nothing in the ENB repertoire that excites me in the least, and I have been a huge follower of the ENB for many years. Lest We Forget. I haven't. Manon and Swan Lake, done so brilliantly by the Royal Ballet so recently. Nutcracker, with much more exciting productions by the RB and the BRB, and as exciting as last year's panetonne found in the back of the cupboard. Then they're off with Akran Khan's Giselle on an international jolly, and that appears to be it...... Oh dear 🙁
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    Ex England captain and football pundit, Rio Ferdinand, won a five year scholarship to the Central School of Ballet, and had to make a choice between the two....
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    Dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet watching the Russia/Spain game backstage, during a performance of Raymonda.....😀
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    Surely Celine Gittens was born to dance Lise?
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    Maybe Jenna is dancing Juliet on her own on Friday. Perhaps Romeo is down the pub watching the football.....
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    It starts a week tomorrow, doesn't it! This is mad even for them.... The other thing is, I am planning to go two or three times, which will require overnight stays. If I can't book a hotel and train until a few days before, the price is astronomical.
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    Where's the bloomin' casting for R and J Birmingham?! Surely they know by now. If other people are holding back, like me, until they know, how does this benefit them? Doesn't it look like they've sold less than they are going to?
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