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    Just in case anyone is thinking of going down to Southampton for this, I note that SWT do have some sort of offer, of singles on their network for £14.95 (advance booking - i.e. the night before - and I think you have to specify a train?). I don't think that will benefit any railcard holders, as the railcard return fare from London is I think slightly cheaper, but it might conceivably be worthwhile if combined e.g. with a Megatrain ticket on the way out, so I thought I'd mention it, just in case.
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    It would be a bit far in advance to do anything about it, wouldn't it? I did wonder what might happen about the classes, though - and whether they might continue them somewhere more centrally, too. After all, when I first started doing them we were somewhere near Westminster Abbey ...
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    From the title of this thread, when I read the start of your post I expected you to say that he'd quit the BSB, Angela
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    Looks as though there may not be any trains into Charing Cross and Cannon Street this weekend.
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    I don't remember it *not* being fine - but I guess it depends whether (or how much) you like the Balanchine. I have mixed feelings about it, myself. But of course your alternative is the version with Macauley Culkin
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    Thanks for the tip - but how do you get past the problem of Trumpkin the dwarf from Narnia?
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    Presumably that was the one screened in cinemas at Christmas a few years ago? I don't think the cinema at Westfield produced anything as fancy as a cast sheet, so I can't check.
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    I saw her at Sadler's Wells back when she was a soloist. I liked her well enough, but it wasn't anything Classical she was dancing, so I was unable to assess her potential as a principal.
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    What??? Reconsiders her thoughts of going back to ENB
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    I've just been told that Thiago is being interviewed on "Midweek" on Radio 4 - right about now.
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    As what people thought Scarlett should/shouldn't do with his new production has been discussed fairly extensively elsewhere, perhaps we could extend this discussion beyond the Royal Ballet to other classically-based companies as well?
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    And there I was wondering when you'd found time to nip over to the Netherlands, Dave! Nice photos, thanks for posting.
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    Hear, hear! I'm afraid that years of experience since they got rid of the centre aisles at Sadler's have led me to buy seats on the sides: before, if I was centre row inevitably most of the other occupants of the row wouldn't go out during the intervals and I'd have to push past most of them.
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    That's just the problem. I have every respect for the office of President of the United States - as opposed to some of those who have actually held it in the past - and seeing the whole thing denigrated and turned into a sideshow is appalling. Our world is in a dreadful state, and there are important subjects to be discussed and the candidates' views on them and what steps they intend to take in relation to them should be known, yet everything important is being buried in a mass of cheap insults and other trivialities. What does this say about our society? We/they surely haven't entirely lost the ability to care about anything of deeper significance yet, have we/they?
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    I was disappointed that the programme didn't print the sonnets in question: I could have done with reading them before the performance, because trying to take them in while watching the dancing, as Mary says, was something I found difficult. Also, I suspect that Wink is better appreciated from above: at ground level, if you happen to be sitting in the wrong place, the screens get in the way of the dancers rather too much. It was intriguing, and I would like a chance to get to know it better. I found that The Moor's Pavane worked rather better seen close-to, Mary, so that may have had something to do with your lack of appreciation. I was also surprised that, unlike in previous years, there didn't seem to be any discount for the weekday matinee performance: that can't have encouraged people to come (and I didn't register any school groups), especially if they were already going to see The Tempest. Possibly too much Shakespeare all in one go?
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    Graze boxes

    alison replied to sarahw's topic in Doing Dance

    They may even sell them in your local Odeon (if you have one!). I've tried a couple: they were nice, but most of them are no good to me because they contain things I can't eat/don't like.
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    Darn. I was hoping for a couple of looks at The Moor's Pavane. Not sure I can make it this way round.
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    Is the running order as Bruce indicates above, please?
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    Archives, Sim, archives
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    Yes, but it has been a *very* lurid red again this season, unfortunately. Verging on the apocalyptic, I'd say. And weren't the storm effects a little less extreme in the past, too?
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    Please bear in mind that there may actually be people reading this thread who intend to vote for Trump. You never know.
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    Bargain. Makes you wonder how they can keep it up at that price. But no, I'm still not paying.
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    Oh yes, that one too!
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    I'm sure it doesn't, but I can't really see it getting made without a cinema or at least big-screen broadcast behind it, or the costs would be prohibitive, wouldn't they? And much as we may admire some of the RB's current young talent, I can't see the general public being interested in what to them will still seem like non-entities.
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    Wow, that must have been an extreme shock! I had enough trouble the first time I went there after New Street Station had been redone, but at least I knew about the Bullring and everything else in advance.
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