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Yes, why should we keep having to have different casts in the RB's version the whole time? I'm losing track: is it 1 Ansanelli, 3 Yoshidas, 1 Marquez thus far?

Are they *all* on the same date? I thought it depended on the cinema.

Is that the pdd they did for Men In Motion? I really liked that one.

This is from the Daily Telegraph Box Office, in case it's unclear! 40% off tickets until Sunday only Celebrate the festive season and New Year with English National Ballet’s magical productions ofNutcracker and Swan Lake in the splendour of the London Coliseum. With 40% off tickets in the dress and upper circle for selected performances, now is the time to book! More than 100 dancers and musicians bring these classic ballets to life, with exquisite dancing, beautiful sets and Tchaikovsky’s glorious scores played live by the English National Ballet Philharmonic. Expect enchanted toys, sparkling snowflakes and mischievous mice in Nutcracker, and of course, the breathtaking sight of more than 20 ballerinas moving in unison in Swan Lake, the world’s favourite classical ballet. *Subject to availability. Terms and conditions apply. * See website for full terms and conditions. A postage charge of £2.50 is payable on bookings made 5 days or more from the date of the performance. Please note that for discounted tickets, phone bookings are charged at a £1.50 supplement per ticket over our internet prices.

This is from the Daily Telegraph Box Office, in case it's unclear! 40% off tickets until Sunday only Celebrate the festive season and New Year with English National Ballet’s magical productions ofNutcracker and Swan Lake in the splendour of the London Coliseum. With 40% off tickets in the dress and upper circle for selected performances, now is the time to book! More than 100 dancers and musicians bring these classic ballets to life, with exquisite dancing, beautiful sets and Tchaikovsky’s glorious scores played live by the English National Ballet Philharmonic. Expect enchanted toys, sparkling snowflakes and mischievous mice in Nutcracker, and of course, the breathtaking sight of more than 20 ballerinas moving in unison in Swan Lake, the world’s favourite classical ballet. *Subject to availability. Terms and conditions apply. * See website for full terms and conditions. A postage charge of £2.50 is payable on bookings made 5 days or more from the date of the performance. Please note that for discounted tickets, phone bookings are charged at a £1.50 supplement per ticket over our internet prices.

ShowSavers Flash Sale! SEATS FOR JUST £23.50! English National Ballet London Coliseum The Nutcracker Journey back in time to a frost-covered, gas-lit Edwardian London and join Clara, her Nutcracker doll and the magician Drosselmeyer in this traditional, festive tale for all the family, choreographed by Wayne Eagling Certain performances 24 December - 2 January (must be booked before midnight on 21 December) And Swan Lake Derek Deane's spectacular production of the world's most popular ballet, a love story and a battle against an evil sorcerer, set to Tchaikovsky's glorious music, performed by a company of over 100 dancers and musicians Certain performances 7 - 18 January (must be booked before midnight on 21 December) Seats for £35.50/£27/£23.50 (usually £59/£45/£39) Book online at Theatre-Ticket: www.theatre-ticket.co.uk Further information on the shows from English National Ballet: www.ballet.org.uk Partner this ticket offer with a restaurant deal from £13.50 at 5pm.co.uk: www.theatrenet.5pm.co.uk NB: NOTE THE BOOKING DEADLINES!

ShowSavers Flash Sale! SEATS FOR JUST £23.50! English National Ballet London Coliseum The Nutcracker Journey back in time to a frost-covered, gas-lit Edwardian London and join Clara, her Nutcracker doll and the magician Drosselmeyer in this traditional, festive tale for all the family, choreographed by Wayne Eagling Certain performances 24 December - 2 January (must be booked before midnight on 21 December) And Swan Lake Derek Deane's spectacular production of the world's most popular ballet, a love story and a battle against an evil sorcerer, set to Tchaikovsky's glorious music, performed by a company of over 100 dancers and musicians Certain performances 7 - 18 January (must be booked before midnight on 21 December) Seats for £35.50/£27/£23.50 (usually £59/£45/£39) Book online at Theatre-Ticket: www.theatre-ticket.co.uk Further information on the shows from English National Ballet: www.ballet.org.uk Partner this ticket offer with a restaurant deal from £13.50 at 5pm.co.uk: www.theatrenet.5pm.co.uk NB: NOTE THE BOOKING DEADLINES!

And *I've* edited the title so that it more faithfully (if more boringly) reflects the entire content of Bruce's post, and not just one sentence of it

Oh, thanks, spooky. There are a couple of places I could perhaps go to if necessary.

Well, if they do that, at least they won't be allowed back in again until the interval. I forgot to mention that I tend to find the smells of beer, red wine and popcorn particularly nauseating, so you can imagine how I feel when someone brings any of them anywhere near me!

I'm now starting to formulate a very tentative hypothesis that it may have something to do with my having the forum open on two different computers at once, and maybe being active on both of them. I had several weeks' worth of links showing as unread, have posted on the Chromebook and accessed links on the PC, and suddenly all the weekly links threads are greyed out

Only from BRB.

I can understand perhaps wanting to take the remains of your interval drink back in if you hadn't finished it - heaven knows, intervals can be pretty short, especially when you spend half of it queuing to be served, and we all know that many people won't avail themselves of the opportunity to order drinks before the performance starts - but to expect to start a new drink while you're in the auditorium, unless it's one of those supper-club-type theatres, is totally inappropriate. And there is always the question of what if you spill the drink? Will the patron next to you really appreciate going home with their coat stinking of beer, or their clothes ruined by red wine, or whatever? And ultimately, if damage is done, who is responsible? The theatre will presumably get the blame for its policy of allowing the drinks in in the first place.

Ah, so in fact it's audio description rather than subtitling? That would make more sense.

Wonder if this is yet another occurrence of companies quoting low to win a tender and then finding that they can't actually, well, deliver under those conditions (no pun intended)? It happens so frequently these days, and you'd think the people putting out the tenders would have realised by now that you can't do things that cheaply without paying a price somewhere along the line.

My sister tore an article out of Saturday's Daily Telegraph on the London Boys Ballet School for me. I was going to post a link here, but it doesn't appear to be online as yet. Just thought I'd mention it, as people have complained about the difficulties of finding training for boys. Their website is boysballetlondon.com.

I've merged this thread with an existing one on a similar theme. Incidentally, I'd just got as far as Winter's Tale in the Radio Times today when I saw that there's an overnight repeat - with subtitles. It's a ballet, for heaven's sake - and squeezed into 2 hours, I can't imagine there's going to be much additional room for people talking

Funny, I've never had any problems with Hermes (mind you, have never tried using them at this time of year), and I really appreciate the fact that the Parcel Shop for returns is less than 5 minutes' walk away. Wonder if they've expanded too much, taking on various mail-order returns services and so on?

Unfortunately, I'm not sure I'm going to be able to catch it this run I hadn't realised it was an unusually short run, and I seem to be heavily booked between Christmas and early January. I'd assumed I'd be able to catch it on tour somewhere, but I think the company are going into The Car Man pretty quickly afterwards. Typical. I haven't been to the ballet in weeks, and suddenly I'm swamped!

Thanks for the feedback, Mummykool. All well worth knowing

Welcome to the forum, northstar, and thank you for posting. Unfortunately, I think we have a bit of a dearth of readers in the Birmingham area (or perhaps they just never post?), and what you might call our longer-distance balletgoers aren't always able to travel. I agree with you, though: I think BRB's is the best Nutcracker in the UK, and I only wish I could see it more often. (It's actually on my Christmas list, but I don't think anyone's found the DVD recently, so I guess I shall just have to suffer withdrawal symptoms).

I see today's Daily Telegraph has a 2-4-1 offer on Bolshoi screenings.

Oh, I wasn't sure whether you mentioned him in relation to the performance or to the Russian gala (couldn't see the reason for the latter, but still ...) Should be interesting, then. Edit: actually, having hauled out my "ROH blurb" (Winter brochure) I was surprised to see no mention of this event whatsoever. Yet the link says it's part of the spring booking programme, for which public booking hasn't yet opened, but I can still access it and book. Strange, and a bit tough on people who would have had no idea it was on more or less until public booking opened, isn't it?

What?

Various dance offerings available via GILT this year, including selected performances of ENB's Swan Lake and RB's Don Quixote (the DQ offer is particularly good!) http://www.getintolondontheatre.co.uk/shows/dance-opera/ Edit: The Don Qs all seem to be amphi-only, but I booked myself a nice £50 ticket at £20 Edward Scissorhands is among the other offerings, but that comes under Entertainment rather than Dance.