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  1. Tony Newcombe
    Sadly they control the money
  2. Tony Newcombe
    So Matt Ball gets to chop off Osipova’s head
  3. Tony Newcombe
    Thinking about your last line Dave. I think Directors may well be taking advantage as well. Have you noticed the number of tall girls that have joined the Royal Ballet recently. Then one notices that there are number of tallish young boys in the lower ranks. Maybe one way of looking at the article would be that in the long run there will be more opportunities for taller girls to dance leading roles in the future
  4. Tony Newcombe
    She is ill. Dancing M&A is one thing but a full length Maryinski Beauty and Royal Don Qs are very different things
  5. Tony Newcombe
    I have just seen the matinee performance and thought it was stunning. I don’t know the company dancers that well and the leads this afternoon were more junior but outstanding. Minju Jang (Victoria), Ayomi Miyata ( Young Beatrice) and Nina Queiros da Silva (Older Beatrice). da Silva was always in my eye and I thought the scene where she was reading her mother’s diary re the wedding night was superb. Wonderful acting.
  6. Tony Newcombe
    If true, O’Hare is quite right. She is a member of the Royal Ballet and will have known about her RB commitments months ago
  7. Tony Newcombe
    Brandon more in your mind than Chipdog!
  8. Tony Newcombe
    That would explain why some people were standing. Suppose it depends on how tall you are
  9. Tony Newcombe
    Thanks Alison. I had row A for class and row B for the R&J rehearsal. Neither were listed as restricted. Balcony seems interesting. I assume these were the restaurant seats. Seemed to me that these were better than any row B or C seats in the main hall
  10. Tony Newcombe
    Alison, you say that you had a restricted view seat for this. Where and what was the number. I was there this morning and wondered where the restricted view seats were. By the way seeing Durante coach Clarke and Hamilton was quite an experience. Sitting 3 feet away as he lifted her high into the air was quite an experience. Nothing but admiration for both of them!
  11. Tony Newcombe
    Scarlett used the same effect in Sweet Violets
  12. Tony Newcombe
    Looks like Bristol has been dropped
  13. Tony Newcombe
    Times have certainly changed. In the early Nineteen Nineties unsold tickets were put on sale a couple of hours or so before the performance. Turn up at the Bow Street entrance and pay twenty pounds for a good seat in the stalls.
  14. Tony Newcombe
    I will second that. It's interesting how one dancer can make you see a ballet in a completely different light. That's what happened for me in the previous run with Kish as the Creature,
  15. Tony Newcombe
    USA always top of pile
  16. Tony Newcombe
    It was in Bahrain, Janet. I think I remember a photo where the kiss was on her hand not her lips!!
  17. Tony Newcombe
    Just spent a lot of time and money booking more performances. Yvette Knight and Brandon Lawrence. Two very elegant dancers
  18. Tony Newcombe
    The cast sheets from previous run include Espada, Mercedes and Kitri’s two friends
  19. Tony Newcombe
    I saw the cast change in the foyer. I was actually offered a cast change sheet.
  20. Tony Newcombe
    Sweet Violets with Leanne Cope guesting
  21. Tony Newcombe
    Did you ever see her fouettes in Hobson Choice. In a Salvation Army trench coat!!!
  22. Tony Newcombe
    The release contains an absolute howler. Fonteyn created the role of Daphnis in Daphnis and Chloe!!!
  23. Tony Newcombe
    It works for me. Is this a platform problem. I seem to remember Alison having this problem in the past.
  24. Tony Newcombe
    Hope so. Didn’t a certain first soloist dance the big pas de deux there a few months ago as part of the celebrations marking the refurbishing at The Mayflower
  25. Tony Newcombe
    BBB, thanks for the photo
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