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    But isn't he taller than McRae?
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    Well, personally I'm gutted that Benn Gartside isn't getting another go at Rudolf: surely he was good enough, from what I heard? As for Muntagirov, with respect, capybara, I think there's a big difference between Conrad and Crown Prince Rudolf. I can't think of any new arrival to the company who's been allowed to take on that role without any prior experience of being in the ballet, usually as one of the Hungarian Officers or something, first. It's not just a question of ability to dance the role, I think it's familiarity with the whole thing - and I don't think Vadim was in the company last time it was danced, or if he was, he'd literally only just have joined. I mean, look how long Bonelli has waited to get a chance at the role. I might have considered Campbell for this one this time around, given his prior experience and his dramatic abilities. I had thought they wouldn't cast McRae because of the difficulty of coming up with enough ballerinas of appropriate stature, but I guess we shall see what we shall see.
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    Room 101

    alison replied to taxi4ballet's topic in Not Dance

    Blimey, did I really write that? I have no memory of it
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    Thanks, Duck. I hadn't realised there was a "find tag" feature.
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    I guess they will be next time, with a new production with costs to offset. Plus, I think this will be only the second run of Beauty with the "proper" costumes, won't it? In that case, they'll still be paying those off.
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    Sadly, I fear I'm not going to be able to go down to Southampton for this. If it weren't bad enough that South West Trains isn't being kind on bargain fares, I checked the Mayflower website and it looks as though the balcony is closed for every performance, which means that there are effectively no cheap seats either, so it just becomes unaffordable OTOH, there are still seats available for the matinee in Bristol - and National Express are offering some ridiculously cheap fares online ...
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    Room 101

    alison replied to taxi4ballet's topic in Not Dance

    Ugh. You have my sympathies, taxi. I had something similar when I went to Wimbledon this year, and took a laptop which I'd had to reset because of a software problem - I knew a client had a deadline that day, and thought it would be just my luck if she needed some amendments made, so smugly took baby laptop with me. Sure enough, amendments were needed - and it was only then that I realised I hadn't reinstalled Word when I'd reinstated the other programs a day or two previously. Had to do the whole thing in WordPad instead, and it messed up the formatting. Who said RTF was pretty similar to Word?
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    Or at least find a cinema which shows the repeats. Mine hasn't in the past, even when it didn't show them first time around either
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    Yes, Dave, but there's a pretty solid 2 1/2 weeks, I think it was, of Beauty - that's what I meant. (And annoyingly, as I'm usually free around Christmas and New Year, I can't make most of those performances)
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    We have quite a few tagged threads on this forum now: tagging is supposed to make it easier to find other threads on a similar topic - clicking on the "tags" tag at the top of this thread should take you to any other threads on the same subject. Only trouble is that, while I can run a search on one tag, I don't seem to have found a way - if one exists - of searching on multiple tags at the same time. So, while I can select all the threads tagged "cinema feedback" I can't then search on a thread for, say, "Sleeping Beauty" as well in order to narrow down the number of hits. Has anyone found a way of doing this, please?
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    We've got quite a few cinema broadcast feedback threads now, so I've tagged the ones I could find with "cinema feedback" in the hopes of making them easier to find. That said, I haven't yet managed to locate the one dealing with the previous broadcast of The Bright Stream.
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    That's the good thing about Picturehouse Cinemas (along with the members' discounts) Not to mention the break-out areas you can sit and eat it in during the interval. Makes it totally worthwhile dumping my local Odeon (£20 a ticket now). (The cake was very nice, BTW ) The Bright Stream is only a repeat, isn't it? Much as I enjoy it, I don't know whether I'll bother going to see it again. May depend on trains and things.
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    Unbelievably quick and painless this morning (yes, this *is* me speaking!) - although I couldn't necessarily always get tickets for my preferred dates. Queue? What queue?! Hugely disappointed, though, that the Woolf Works run *and* the Sleeping Beauty run are so crammed together: I would probably have booked more seats for SB had the performances been further apart, but there's a limit to how many times I can watch it in a short space of time. And the prices were a distinctly limiting factor, too
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    Updated casting here: http://giselle.ballet.org.uk/principal-cast
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    Does anyone have any experience of Arrieta, by the way?
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    Simon Virsaladze. And I think the current designs *are* the originals, aren't they? They certainly looked like it from stills I remember from the Bessmertnova era.
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    Unfortunately, that's so often the case, isn't it? Two partners separated by a significant age gap, which reduces the amount of time for that partnership to flourish.
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    Me too
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    Yep, that was pretty much my take on it, too. Couldn't really care less about the characters: I just assumed they would get out alive at the end because they were the noble Soviet ones and the baddies weren't. I actually got so bored by the end of the first half that I had to go and have a nice piece of cake to keep me going considered going home, but thankfully it got rather more interesting in the second act, even though there were way too many scene changes and switching back and forth to the cabaret or whatever you call it. I was very surprised, though, towards the end of Act II, to hear the opening strains of the slow movement from DSCH's second(?) piano concerto (better known to many readers here as the "Concerto pas de deux", I should think). Is this an original part of the score, and did Shostakovich appropriate it for the concerto, or did Grigorovich simply decide to insert it as a suitable(?) piece of music for a pdd? (If he did, I'd have to say that he and I have different interpretations of "suitability" )
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    From a recent email from ENB: "Akram Khan's Giselle continues its tour Don't miss this sensational production in Bristol and Southampton Following rave reviews at the world premiere in Manchester, Akram Khan's Giselle continues its tour to Bristol and Southampton (London is SOLD OUT)! Further casting has just been announced: Junior Soloist Aitor Arrieta, who joined the Company this season, will dance the role of Albrecht opposite First Artist Madison Keesler as Giselle. Junior Soloist Ken Saruhashi and Principal Yonah Acosta will dance the role of Hilarion, and Isabelle Brouwers will dance the role of Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis."
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    Lovely photos, thank you, DQF.
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    If anyone went to see The Golden Age today and wants to discuss, please use this thread. Thanks.
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    OTOH, it's not exactly cheap: tickets are more than what I try to pay when I see something live!
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    Just a reminder about The Golden Age tomorrow!
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    Can you not get a refund on the ticket and buy a new one, Lin, or is it restricted?
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