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  1. Scheherezade
    I could be wrong, Dawnstar, but I’m somehow picking up that you liked the opening night’s performance. 😜
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    Even creepier, how about Pita’s The Mother?
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    Use of the words "when commenting" would seem to presuppose that comments are permitted - and perhaps even expected. With the exception of negative comments and spoilers, I can't see why comments shouldn't be posted.
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    Not the dancing, Capybara, but the impact. The hard work, commitment and talent of the virtuoso is a given but it’s surely hard to deny that the immediacy of the virtuosic thrill will generally have a bigger initial impact than a nuanced interpretation.
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    This does sometimes happen. At one performance a youngish daughter was apologising profusely to everyone nearby for the audible comments made by her mother, explaining that she suffered from dementia. It would have been a hard heart indeed that would have voiced their disapproval and fortunately no-one did.
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    There are others to be found to the sides of the auditorium, often between the various levels, and, of course, a larger set behind the amphitheatre bar.
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    It’s easy, of course, for dancers with a flamboyant, virtuoso style to make a big impact but those with a more restrained style can often bring more nuanced characterisation to the party and the impact is frequently something of a surprise. I think that this is why Bracewell, as one of the latter, is mentioned so often.
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    True. And of course new partnerships have to be tried out to see whether they can reproduce that magic.
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    Mmm, much as I was wowed overall by the Hayward/Corrales/Sambe/Hay/Ball pre-Covid combo, I do think that Hayward and Bracewell work better together as a pairing: every action feels spontaneous, every reaction unforced. They really do sing from the same songsheet, which takes the narrative impact to a different level. I can't help feeling that Kevin O'Hare has missed a trick here.
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    Given their obvious chemistry and mutually instinctive response to music and narrative, as shown in Romeo & Juliet Beyond Words and Dances at a Gathering, I wonder why Bracewell and Hayward weren't cast together in this season's R & J?
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    If they didn’t, they should have. It was dreadful. Personally I found Carbon Life far more bearable, possibly because it didn’t take itself so seriously. Was this down to the music and costumes?
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    I’d say that a bit of bling - or something equally trivial- thrown in was exactly what this production needed. Something contrasting and mood-shifting to provide even a soupçon of relief from the all-encompassing gloom of this harrowing tale. Light and shade. And, in comparison, the cautionary morality tale would have been all the more effective.
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    I don’t think you need to lose any sleep over that, Lizbie. Like so much at the NT lately, I felt that it somehow missed the mark.
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    I've lost count of the number of National Theatre productions I've been tempted to walk out of since the departure of Nicholas Hytner.
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    I had assumed that, Jan, but, given your very pertinent and not unexpected observation, I wanted to give added emphasis to the other side of the coin.
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    Not by those of us who enjoy the energy, characterisation, partnering skills and all-round personality that he brings to every performance.
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    I got a paper cast sheet on opening night by asking for one.
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    Wonderful photos, Ian, and what an interesting man; I'd have loved to have met him. My condolences to his family. May he rest in peace.
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    What rotten luck, LinMM; and losing your new dresses too!
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    Sorry zxDaveM, we seem to be making the same point.
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    I think it’s more a case of the level and volume of the cheaper seats since anyone who is looking at the top, or even middling to top, prices is presumably in a relatively good place anyway. I would say that the number of cheap seats (by definition the only seats affordable by those who have to watch their budget) have noticeably shrunk at the ROH and this would seem to be reflected by the number of unsold amphitheatre seats. A quick glance shows that the cheap seats in the amphitheatre have largely sold out but the middling to higher priced seats have not. The situation was so bad when a friend of mine attended a performance of The Magic Flute last week, the amphitheatre was closed and those with tickets in the amphitheatre were moved to the lower levels. I would prefer to see the coffers refilled by a batch of premium seats at premium prices in the lower levels and hope that more realistic pricing for the amphitheatre will be reintroduced before too long.
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    🙁🙁🙁
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    It sounds terrific, Jan. I am hoping it comes to London or thereabouts.
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    Despite the rape and murder in act 2, it was paradoxically less harrowing than act 1.
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    Love this! And Benny Hill (or, more particularly, his signature chases) always reminds me of the time my daughter’s bag was snatched on a school trip to Barcelona. My daughter immediately set off in pursuit, followed by a number of her friends; two of the teachers joined the chase and as they all ran after the thief, various locals and tourists joined in, one of whom, when the thief was trapped in a dead-end alleyway, grabbed the thief’s shoes to prevent him making his escape, then gallantly retrieved and returned my daughter’s bag with almost everything intact.
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