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  1. alison
    Oh, really? Another one? Wonder whether their major sponsor's financial woes are going to have an effect on all these imports of dancers?
  2. alison
    Thanks, Carol. Only £25 tickets left are standing.
  3. alison
    With the last performance of the Royal Ballet's The Dream bill coming up, I wondered if anyone else has managed to see this rather anarchic version of Shakespeare's play? They've taken quite a few liberties with it, but I think it really works - and I had tears of laughter streaming down my face for much of it. It's pretty difficult to describe accurately, though - needs to be seen, I think. I think it's on for another week or two. Edit: this is weird: the italics show up perfectly well when I go to edit this, but when I look at the website version I suddenly get the html showing through.
  4. alison
    Oh, I've missed this forum! Thanks for reinstating it, John.
  5. alison
    I've been struggling to find up-to-date details on this: I thought they'd usually be online by now? Needless to say, there appear to be a number of differences between what was originally announced and the latest line-up
  6. alison
    The Hobson's Choice Thursday matinee (the one with the cheaper prices) was a near sell-out too - and most of those were sold before anyone knew that Alexander Campbell would be guesting. Fiz: can you not sit somewhere other than stalls? (Or you could try the new Scarlett/McGregor bill ...)
  7. alison
    Sounds like quite a nasty op for César, then, if it takes that long to recover from it. I wish both him and Natasha a full - and preferably speedy - recovery from what ails them, and all the best to Gaylene, too.
  8. alison
    So, that's now 3 - or is it 4? - days running it's not been possible to get directly onto the booking site (yesterday I merely wanted to check my seating arrangements for a couple of performances, but I couldn't even do that). A good job for the ROH that their ballet tickets are sold out for weeks ahead, but not so good for the opera: they must be losing multiple opportunities to sell tickets for the controversial Rusalka for a start, because people who aren't used to the ways of the system probably won't want to hang around online for hours waiting to get through.
  9. alison
    In today's METRO, short-course swimmer Liam Tancock discloses that ballet forms part of his training routine: http://www.metro.co.uk/olympics/891814-liam-tancock-ballet-gives-me-the-edge-over-swimming-competitors
  10. alison
    If anyone was planning on going to this by train to Charing Cross, you'll need to read this: "Engineering work starting on 04/03/12 between London Charing Cross and London Bridge. Track improvements and maintenance are taking place from 01:10 on 04/03/12 to 04:00 on 05/03/12 between London Charing Cross and London Bridge. There are no scheduled train services operating between London Charing Cross, London Waterloo East and London Bridge. As a result, services will operate out of London Cannon Street but run as scheduled to and from London Bridge. Passengers can travel to and from London Waterloo East and London Charing Cross on shuttle train services that operate every 15 minutes between London Cannon Street and London Charing Cross. This engineering work affects all train services scheduled to operate out of London Charing Cross."
  11. alison
    Bumping this for the Bolshoi Le Corsaire next week: note the earlier-than-usual starting time.
  12. alison
    Casting for the London Coliseum season of Daphnis and Chloe/The Two Pigeons and Coppelia is now up at http://www.brb.org.uk/masque/index.htm?act=whatson&tsk=venue&urn=14912
  13. alison
    DVD cast is, I think, Michael O'Hare and Karen Donovan, though I suspect someone will correct me if I'm wrong - it definitely wasn't recorded in 2006, but a lot earlier, I'd guess early 90s? I have it at home on VHS, but obviously can't get at it at the moment. I'm not sure whether Kevin O'Hare ever danced Will: there were some roles the O'Hare brothers overlapped in, and others they didn't, and I'm not sure which this role qualifies as.
  14. alison
    You know, I'd really appreciate a page on the website warning us when we're unlikely to be able to get through: then I'd probably try to avoid days like these. Mind you, of course the new all-singing, all-dancing, all-accommodating website will make this unnecessary, won't it?
  15. alison
    Well, sort of in English. Half of it . Thanks, anyway. And there were definitely performances showing as available yesterday.
  16. alison
    Posh Friends' opera booking today, by any chance? The queue's not long enough to be normal Friends', I don't think.
  17. alison
    Mmm, I remember keeping an eye on Jones for several years prior to graduation - rather unusual for me, since I don't really follow the dancers as students that much - and possibly Moore, too. Good to know that Badenes is doing so well. Do keep us posted with any performance reports if you feel like it.
  18. alison
    Stuttgart has two male British principals now, doesn't it?
  19. alison
    I can't remember that it has: I was aware that things were pretty rocky with his company, but not that he'd filed for bankruptcy. Wonder where that leaves the Mikhailovsky - and all its recent acquisitions, human and otherwise? I also wonder whether that was behind the cancellation of the M's US tour dates?
  20. alison
    Two mixed bills for Sadler's Wells, when Birmingham only gets one all season? Interesting. Edit: actually, that's a bit of a shame - I'd been looking forward to seeing their Swan Lake again, but I suppose ENB's major run during the summer has put the kybosh on that.
  21. alison
    Not unloved, with over 1000 viewings, John!
  22. alison
    I think I spotted one in the new edition of Dance Europe today, too.
  23. alison
    Well done . We're all learning, gradually. Seats are disappearing at a fair rate for this already, to judge by the website. Edit: and I do like the way this forum just retained all the formatting from the original text without my having to do anything whatsoever.
  24. alison
    I seem to remember reading good reports of it somewhere.
  25. alison
    Seconded
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