Rob S

6 minutes ago, art_enthusiast said:

Just wondering, which side of the stalls circle is best for Swan Lake - right or left? I tend to opt for sitting on the right side, but also have tickets for the left. Is it possible you might miss a lot of the action on a particular side?

I've got no idea why but when I booked my SCS tickets all I could get for the first wave of performances was for the left...I got some on the right for the second wave.

Not even listed as a change of cast and I've not received an email yet😲

Loving that cast, so pleased to see new names getting significant roles, both as mentioned in that cast list and photos from various dancers on Instagram 🙂

11 hours ago, Dawnstar said:

 

I know I will factually. I just won't feel like I am emotionally!

 

 

I could understand that if they were having a school matinee prior to what you thought was their debut performance, or if maybe if you had a ticket for the rehearsal and didn't want your enjoyment of seeing Magri's debut lessened by seeing her in the rehearsal as well.

45 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

 

Talking of pony tails, did Whitehead end the run still with his?

No, he had it down for his final Friar performance.

9 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

 

Are the girls in the procession supposed to be Juliet's friends at that point? I know they're the same dancers but I'm not sure if they're supposed to be the same characters.

Yes, their extra long and thick pony tail disguises don't fool me.

A few observations from yesterday evening....the lights took a while to turn off after Juliet looks up at the audience during her opening scene....the bottle of poison got lost in her scarf after removal it from under the pillow, the scarf had to be laid out on the bed to find it!! Also, a lovely moment from Ashley Dean (as Juliet's friend) in act 2 when Benvolio rescues another friend's flowers from the harlot...Benjamin Ella threw them over his shoulder but they looked to be heading for the floor until Ashley appeared and caught them one handed and then did a little celebratory dance. 🙂

1 hour ago, AnticaFiamma said:

Federico's performance next week will be his last

Isn't it worse than that? Isn’t his final performance a ‘Welcome Performance’!? 

Lauren is the first Juliet I’ve seen that puts the poison under the pillow by clambering on to the bed…she also doesn’t do that thing with Paris where she goes limp at the start of their pdd. 

Alondra’s Mr Tambourine Man is a lot quieter than Jonathan Lo’s during Act 2 

Lauren just did it again for the second and third of the three raises. 

6 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

@Rob SI just put my camera on to charge. May as well take it off if you'll be there!

You know what I say to that, don't you!!

Looks to be an interesting cast with me seeing Yudes as Mercutio and Mock as Tybalt for the first time

2 hours ago, Emeralds said:

I think that opening night cast is a glitch - I would advise ignoring that cast list. It looks like it was copied and pasted from 2020, as they are exact cast I saw 2 years ago, and Beatrix is probably in lectures in America....doubt she’s flying in to dance when she’s left the company.  😉

Indeed....although it doesn't explain why she's still listed on the roster and her page has been updated to say she left the RB at the end of last season yet Ed Watson has already been deleted from the dancer roster page

13 minutes ago, Eleena said:

Just to clarify, I have no cast list for the opening night! But the dancers’ pages have one Benno, two sisters, one Rothbart, one Queen (and so on) listed, so sounded to me it might be the opening night cast. But I might be wrong! Anyway, the details have been there for two or three weeks already. Might be that it’s not even supposed to be visible to us but is automatically generated from some system they use (and therefore includes some old casting details that have not been revised yet). But I’m guessing now - I really don’t know.

Oh ok...I don't take that info to say who they'll be in the next performance, merely that they are going to be that role at some point in the production, for example Claire Calvert is listed as going to be Odette and a big swan...not in the same performance and not for the opening night of course.

6 minutes ago, Eleena said:

I noticed too that the opening night casting for Swan Lake looks a bit odd....

Where have you found that? When I click on the link for casting info on the e-ticket it doesn't go to a cast page (it doesn't seem to be a very reliable or long lasting link at the best of times)

2 hours ago, Eleena said:

If it’s any help, casting for the final three R&J shows was added to the dancers’ personal ROH profiles yesterday afternoon. I often check there as casting seems to appear there at least a day before the cast list is published.

 

 

Do you know for sure that they were added yesterday afternoon? It seems a strange use of the inputter's time to list casting info there (given the note at the top of each dancer's page) when they still haven't created pages for the latest Aud Jebsen dancers.

Beatriz Stix-Brunell's page is interesting, not just because she is still mentioned on the dancers page but her page has  been updated to say she is a former dancer and yet she is listed as being a big swan in the upcoming Swan Lake.

39 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

 

 

 

By the way - and I probably should have asked this before booking! - do Scenes de Ballet....

A review from 2011 states it has one lead couple, four male soloists and 12 female corps

Due to over excitement I have accidentally double booked SCS places for the triple bill of 7th April.

On offer is Thursday 7th April SCS D5 for £7

There are still some problems....although I selected the 'old' site and could book one Month In Country ticket which I then immediately paid for I can't get it to show anything at all beyond picking a date for a subsequent performance and opening ROH on another tab I see it doesn't recognise my email/password when I log in....this is using Chrome on a desktop. I managed to book 'all' that I wanted on my phone...using Chrome 

On 20/02/2022 at 08:15, JohnS said:

I assume that means we have another month to see this as the BBC4 screening must be coming to the end of its iPlayer availability.

Do you mea the Dante Project? It's still got 21 days of availability

1 minute ago, AnticaFiamma said:

Yup, and then fell down because of the pain as he does with Naghdi

And he didn't try lying next to her before taking the poison?