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I’m sure the payment page was slightly different this time. As for my first booking I could only see a card details section and the gift certificate and credit didn’t come up. So I paid by card for that one. But when I went back in again (always do the bookings separately) as I knew I had a lot of credit and again could only see card details I went into a little arrow in side the payment by card box and then it brought up a separate list including paying by account credit!! So was easy from then onwards. However I’m sure in the past all methods of payment automatically showed on the payment page ….underneath the card details bit. It is certainly not obvious what the little arrow in the card details box is for so trial and error paid of on this occasion!!

I have to admit that these days I tend to get to ROH at least 2 hours before the performance if I can but always try to be there by 6pm latest! After 6.30 it does start to get very busy. It’s especially busy on days where there has been a matinee or when there are concurrent events in the Linbury or Clore. It must be especially annoying if audience members who are standing for the performance can find nowhere to sit beforehand.

I will later on but am about to set off to get back to Brighton ….but looking at your above comment Emeralds you can save your money as one of the things I said at the end yesterday is for me I don’t think this choreography really suits a full length work!! When I saw ENB’s Creature I felt the music/sound track destroyed it but last night I thought the music saved it!

It’s not so much people sitting at tables eating something from Pret but people who are using the area to work with their computers with wires spread out across to the plugs just rife for someone to trip over ( I’m very aware of falling over at the moment) but have seen this in the downstairs cafe area. I think it’s okay to work in the cafe till about 6pm but after that the tables should be left free for those wishing to eat or drink. I certainly wouldn’t have the nerve to bring in food from another vendor like Pret to eat there!

Quite a night for Sambe’ as well then!

I managed to get everything I wanted this morning between 10 and 11 with a one minute queue. I had quite a bit of credit to use up from Decembe January and February so felt like most tickets were for free lol. I’ve opted for the two slightly different Ashton programmes and two Winters Tales and already had the Sarasota ticket for Linbury. I didn’t get RBS annual show only slips left by the time I booked but seeing the seniors in the Linbury ( and Holland Park) and still haven’t decided about Takada/Sissens Swan Lake on 25th June. I keep hearing she may not end up doing it so will risk waiting a bit longer. Have no used up all my credit anyway!!

Yes I’m seeing RBS at Next Generation and Holland Park this year but always love the House atmosphere for main stage show …will look out for returns anyway …I did get lucky last year!!

By the time I booked (finished about 10 mins ago) only slips left for RBS show so no good for me unfortunately.

It’s interesting that in our local Artsy cinemas in Brighton there seems to be no showing …rather encore of Swan Lake but the livestream and encore of the triple are advertised!

A friend has pointed out that the downstairs cabinets in the cafe have the designs for Alice and Onegin. I don’t know how long they’ve been there as haven’t been to RoH for a while but could this be a clue as to next season?

My memory is very hazy but I seem to remember Mr. Watson hanging around a pillar more to the right of the stage ( right if you were sitting in the audience) so perhaps left side would best but I could be completely wrong. I do remember the dancing being more central in the second Act though.

I’ve definitely read it somewhere but maybe it’s one of those threads that morphed into a next seasons wants etc although originally had another title? I didn’t do any predictions or desires etc but can remember commenting that I’d heard it might be Cinderella next Christmas and possibly no Nutcracker!

I think we do have a thread not long ago for next seasons wish lists etc Perhaps this thread should be for the actual reality of what is happening in the RB 24/5 season.

I’m only “on your case” lol because I’m dreading this particular 27th booking day so it’s rather too firmly etched in my mind!! Sometimes I’ve only remembered it’s “booking day” the next day! But there’s rather a lot I want to book on certain days this time so just hate being up against the clock! Also when you are also doing bookings reaching into next Autumn it’s difficult to know which month it is let alone which day of the week it is!!

I will say again (especially for San Perregrino) that public booking for the summer season does not open tomorrow!! It opens on 27th which is on Wednesday.

Summer Booking at ROH doesn’t open to the General Public until 27th which is on Wednesday!

You used to get this tutting years back ….after queuing for hours for a standing ticket because you were standing in Stalls Circle and back in early 70’s people did tend to dress up more in Stalls and Dress Circle etc so our “street clothes” were not appreciated! I often had a carrier bag with me and remember one night a very dressed up member (including jewels) saying as passing “well she’s even brought her shopping with her”

I think it would be okay to have certain performances designated occasionally to the audience for dressing up ..more the fantasy dressing up..as one sees for certain ABBA shows ….but not promoted for EVERY performance. The other sort of dressing up..posh frocks etc….can be entirely a matter of choice. In the days when you queued for hours for tickets and mostly outside the building you were obviously not going to be wearing your posh frock!! But I did dress up more on occasions when had a ticket already ..in my 20’s and 30’s because I dressed up more when going out in general back then…you tend to more when you have the looks and figure lol! However I had a long gap when didn’t go to ROH at all (or to the theatre much in general) and when I started going again I was not in the habit of dressing up that much to go out and so didnt (and still don’t) to the ROH. I don’t mind at all if other people do and want to look glamorous I quite enjoy looking at other peoples posh frocks etc……as long as it’s not expected of everybody.

Echoing Janet’s post above great to have info straight from the horses mouth so to speak! The link in Doug Fullington’s post gives a very clear and precise picture of the format of the new ballet. Im not absolutely sure but it looks like Nikiya’s famous dance ( as the temple dancer)…… one of the dances which thousands of aspiring dancers have ambition to perform ……has been axed so not danced or slightly adapted with different costume etc. Anyway this has been rewritten as a musical comedy …..so some drama and pathos in the original is bound to be lost. Im sure this will be a success as a musical in its own rite and I would certainly be very interested to see it myself but feel it’s not really going to be an adapted replacement for the ballet Bayadere but a new musical very loosely based on the original. Can this do justice to the Kingdom of Shades scenes? Well I hope the score isn’t too jazzed up for this bit as it’s the marrying of the original score with the choreography especially the entry of the Shades which creates the Beauty of these scenes. So have to wait and see. An interesting venture which hopefully can stand as an alternative to the original a bit like the two Giselles we have at the moment in UK Returning to a point Emeralds made re film West Side Story…..well that’s got to be the film I’ve seen the most times..love it …and made me cry again recently …however it was never a re vamp of a ballet as this Bayadere is proposing ..it was based on Shakespeare’s Play and the original stage musical also based on the play so not quite the same.

I missed that Jan but have watched the interview! It does have a different title “A Star on the Rise” ( based on La Bayadere) I was a little confused when they were talking about the choreography because on the one hand they said they were retaining original notation from 123 years ago but just changing some upper body movements or bringing movements more into what we would expect today. So wasn’t sure exactly what that would mean. Perhaps a sort of balletic musical but not really pure classical dance form. They used the love triangle from Singing in the Rain when talking about how they would change that but didn’t say how Nikiya would be depicted…not a temple dancer obviously …but wondered how they would choreograph her famous dance. It’s definitely going to have a Hollywood musical of 20’s and 30’s era feel anyway which I’m sure many of us here love anyway …who doesn’t love Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ….but it depends how much of the classicism is taken out of the Dance to see if will really qualify as a “replacement” for La Bayadere. The way they talked about people having a good time and having to have fun at the theatre worried a bit in that ballet may be reduced to something solely as entertainment and a bit frivolous! We might be even more grateful to Macmillan here then….even Different Drummer …if this is the case!! I hope someone who is in US and follows this Forum can get to see it anyway. It will be interesting to see how it’s received.

I couldn’t read Bruce’s link but did look at Roberta’s and it says there that the Kingdom of Shades is recreated as a “stunning art deco fantasy which would make even Busby Berkerley proud” This could be a revamp too far and it all sounds more like musical territory than a classical ballet to me …which is absolutely fine but why not call it something else with an acknowledgment that it’s based on Bayadere story but with completely different choreography etc. Still the proof of the pudding will be in the eating…….

How will they do the glorious “white act” 🤔 The bit with all the promenading arabesques in tutus!

I think if it was just for a few publicity shots you could say it was a bit of fun! However if she was seriously suggesting that young people should go dressed to the ballet like this then that would be to mislead! In the end I don’t care that much what people wear to the ballet if they feel comfortable with what they are wearing though probably pyjamas or beach wear or dressed up to look like the black swan might be a bit embarrassing to sit next to!

Well obviously that tutu is for a publicity stunt only! If she were dressed for real like that it wouldn’t offend me ….I’d just be glad I wasn’t her and feel embarrassed for her naïveté as she’s too old to be going to the Ballet dressed like a 3-7 year old!! The only thing is will those she’s trying to “influence” take her too literally 🤔 In another lifetime Ive worn tutus to perform in but never did like them that much even when I was thin!! They are definitely for those under 35! You don’t even have to be overweight to not look good in them just a slight tummy and a little thicker around the knees can destroy the look!! I prefer the Juliet dress look myself!! If the ROH wants to attract younger people to ballet performances in this way why not use the many genuine students of ballet ( at RBS ENB Rambert and so on) for photoshoots and videos… only if wanted to take part of course.

Good job I didn’t see David Drew in that then….after his role as the gaoler in Manon!