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  1. bridiem
    If the remaining 20% had been discounted to £40, the revenue would be £12,800. If only 70% had sold at £150 and the remaining 30% discounted to £12, the revenue would be £10,860. If the tickets had gone on sale at £120 and all sold out, the revenue would be £12,000. So without knowing how many were discounted, or what the sales would have been like at a lower full price, or whether all the discounted tickets would have sold at (say) £40, it's difficult to judge the outcome. But I hope very much that the ROH is not going to adopt this kind of speculative ticketing strategy. Posted at same time as capybara!
  2. bridiem
    There's another thread for Black Sabbath at SW - zxDaveM's excellent review. Please could the mods either combine the threads or move the SW posts here to that thread?
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    I don't object to staff, or even family and friends of staff, being offered discounted tickets for at least some performances. I do object to them being offered vastly discounted tickets because said tickets have been hugely overpriced to start with, and/or because it's badly-judged programme for which few people are willing to buy full-price tickets. Both those scenarios imply big problems with both pricing and programming decisions.
  4. bridiem
    Very sad. For years he was one of the critics I read avidly. RIP
  5. bridiem
    I don't find that scene in Cinderella remotely shocking or vulgar. It's sharp, spiky, unexpected, angular, mysterious, and altogether wonderful.
  6. bridiem
    Her bio on the ROH website says she was promoted to principal in 2017.
  7. bridiem
    Yes, I went through all these thought processes. It just seems strange to have immediately cancelled the Don Q performances whilst still planning to dance somewhere else a few days later. (By 'strange' I don't mean I'm doubting the fact of the injury - just the decision-making involved.)
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    Interesting that a lot of the unsold seats are in the same areas at each performance. I hope that the ROH learns from that where they have got it wrong (or most wrong) in terms of pricing.
  9. bridiem
    I received mine via Amazon today.
  10. bridiem
    Interesting question!
  11. bridiem
    So did I. (Which is why I'm not booking this time!). Unless the ROH can read my mind, I have no idea why I wouldn't have received the offer.
  12. bridiem
    I haven't booked, and didn't get the offer.
  13. bridiem
    Me too. I'm afraid Hinkis does absolutely nothing for me whereas I would have scurried to get a ticket for Gasparini.
  14. bridiem
    Unbelievably, it seems that she was 48 (retired July 1995). I find that impossible to believe; maybe my maths is even worse than I thought...
  15. bridiem
    I've only just noticed that the Insight about The Limit tonight at 7.30pm is being livestreamed.
  16. bridiem
    Same here - 21-27 Oct.
  17. bridiem
    So it seems that 'sold out' didn't really mean 'sold out'?! (These aren't returns - I saw the other day that 'more tickets have been released'.)
  18. bridiem
    Good! Have they been replaced with any others?
  19. bridiem
    I was just browsing some performances yesterday to check views from misc seats, and without even trying to put anything in my basket (which I wasn't going to do anyway) I got the 'you have exceeded your ticket allowance' message. I mean really.
  20. bridiem
    The tube strikes tomorrow and on Friday have been called off.
  21. bridiem
    Actually, come to think of it I don't like them being known as 'heritage' works anyway. They're just ballets, and if they're good they should go on being programmed. They're not museum pieces. They're as much living works as something created last year, as long as they're actually performed. And if they're not performed, they die.
  22. bridiem
    I love the description in the Broadway World review (see today's Links) of Christopher Saunders as Don Q - 'never knowingly under-strutted'.
  23. bridiem
    I am now so regretting that I didn't book for last night, as I normally would have done for opening night. The DQ prices have meant severe rationing. Grrr... But reading all your write-ups is the next best thing, so thank you all!
  24. bridiem
    On the ROH home page, go to Tickets and Events at the top and scroll down to Cast Sheets. Tonight's is there at the moment.
  25. bridiem
    No, it doesn't say it now! It's changed since yesterday. I received a confirmation email with the 5th Oct estimated delivery date. Just have to see what happens!
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