Rob S

1 hour ago, Marie said:

Does anyone know if its possible to view the cast other than the main pairing for Romeo and Juliet online? Or will we not know until the day? When looking at performances I have booked for, there is a button saying 'view cast sheet' which I assumed meant viewing the full cast, but it just redirects me to the booking page with no further information. 

They seem to  be continuing the online cast sheets but it will be published on the day

1 minute ago, bridiem said:

 

The thread got diverted into discussing R&J sales too, Rob S, so the performance mentioned is in just over a week's time. I do hope the house will fill up by then, by whatever means.

🤦🏻‍♂️😆

1 hour ago, Candleque said:

 

Like many, I am surprised (and sad) at the low sales for this. Kaneko/Bracewell deserve a full house for sure. And given that kids all study Shakespeare in school at some point, would be a great matinee to take even non-dancing teens.

Does anyone know what the ROH does when they have so many open seats? Do they gift them to the RBS or other worthy orgs? 

 

Hopefully they wait and see what happens when the public get a chance to buy some seats in six weeks time? 

I don’t know if this article in the Guardian adds anything to the discussion 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/29/how-safe-is-the-cinema-experts-weigh-in-on-risks-as-no-time-to-die-opens

15 minutes ago, alison said:

 

But she only gets the one show?

True but it’s not a school matineeeee!!! 🎉👏🎉👏

So pleased for Claire Calvert 🙂👏

From the email we all got a day or two before the performance 

Our staff members will continue to wear face masks when welcoming our audiences and members of the public. We encourage audience members to join us in doing the same when moving around the building and when seated in the auditorium.

There were signs saying to wear a mask in the corridor between foyer and auditorium but no announcements. 

In my area of the auditorium (Stalls aisle seat) only the two people behind me decided to go with that encouragement 

I’m sat in the Theatre Royal, Bath watching The Dresser. Every single person sat round me was mask free during the first half, then virtually all of them put on a mask to go and get an ice cream in the foyer. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Looks like the plans for a vaccine passport have been scrapped in England

Although I can't see a similar clause on the ROH website the Albert Hall has this on their's The Royal Albert Hall may introduce additional safety measures for customers and staff attending performances in accordance with Government guidelines and/or our own risk assessment of the events. If measures are introduced, you will be informed by email as soon as possible. All attendees will be required to comply with these measures.

That would seem to suggest that if you bought tickets when vaccine passports were not required it doesn't mean you can show up without one if a requirement is brought in next week, for example.

5 minutes ago, LinMM said:

I believe there is a higher grade medical mask which I always forget the name of which has proved to be highly effective in hospitals in protecting wearers from people with active Covid. 
It may be useful for theatre use at least better than usual masks worn ...will look up the name. 

Maybe they could sell ROH/RB branded versions in the ROH shop 💡

18 minutes ago, LinMM said:

Wasn't the ROH stricter about this? 
I thought you couldn’t attend at ROH without a mask?

They make announcements prior to the performance, an usher may pop round and ask a group of people to put masks on but don’t do anything about people who pretend not to hear them…or take them off as soon as the lights go down

Another chance to see The Metamorphosis, featuring Edward Watson, Sky Arts Mon 6th Sep  0600-0735

If it’s not a Saturday performance I’d take the tube, I’ve never really found it THAT busy and I get off at Paddington too

Can you take a folded carrier bag and put your coat in the bag and have it between your feet? That's what I do.

5 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

 

I haven't had to deal with returning any tickets since when the last part of the 2019/20 season was cancelled so I'm not that au fait with their current policy. I'm going by the pre-covid policy, where you'd only get a refund if the seat you returned was re-sold & thinking that if I return a seat because the covid rates are too high for me to feel safe going then probably demand will be lower so returns less likely to re-sell.

It is still showing this as the policy:

If you cannot come to the theatre due to Covid-19, you can exchange your ticket or tickets for a gift certificate up to 24 hours before a performance.

6 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

 

I'm not worried about the performances being cancelled due to covid, since then they obviously will refund, but if the performances go ahead but the covid rates are too high for me to feel I can go then I'll probably lose my money.

 

Hopefully the returns policy is the same as it was for the last performances and you’ll instantly get a credit note 

6 minutes ago, alison said:

I don't know, Rob, I was wondering that too.  I've spent far more than I normally would - but then have also booked far more tickets than normal as well, so it's not surprising.  What was surprising was the number of standing places still available.

 

I've basically just booked loads of dates at random, with no consideration of how they'll fit together, but I couldn't get my head round where all the dates were in relation to each other.  Should perhaps have used a spreadsheet or something.  And I've booked "only" 9 casts for R&J, and that left several out!

I know what you mean, I had written a ridiculously optimistic list of possible dates to look for last night knowing that if I couldn't get SCS then I'd only get an O'Sullivan R&J and make do with the six places from my package wallet buster of last week. I ended up getting 19 places including Ed Watson's farewell.

Good grief, that went waaaaaaaaaaay too well!! What's going on!!??? 🤔🧐

4 hours ago, LinMM said:

I’ve never had a problem booking tickets for the ROH with either my Lloyd’s or Nationwide cards before now so hope this is not going to be a new thing? 

Maybe it’s to do with the amount (£243) or maybe because I’d had the second transaction ten minutes after the first one (which didn’t need a code but was for about £100 after all the credit notes taken off)…maybe I have some setting on my bank account that I can adjust the figure that sets it off. To be on the safe side I’ll dig out my PayPal details for Tuesday as I know myself that messages sent by robots can sometimes go awol 

Are you a Lloyds customer? I had the same verification thing and although the notification of the message didn't appear on my phone when I went to my messages I saw there was one from the bank

I think they should offer a ‘design your own booking experience’ package where you get a discount based on how much booking trauma you want to tolerate; modest discounts if you settle for being 852nd in the queue even though you joined it an hour in advance, choose a dancer you don’t want to see or a date you can’t go to for a 5% discount, press the website crash button after you’ve booked all your seats and get  10% off whatever you can get second time round….people with a strong heart or lots of hair they are willing to lose may be interested in the Total Fiasco package at a 18% discount

Well that was straightforward and expensive 😆

I thought Rapinoe's (woman with purple hair) two fantastic goals in their 4-3 win for bronze were a great indicator that she didn't play terribly

I noticed last night that the ROH website has stated which Nutcracker performances will be for schools/children only since I last looked...Sat 4th Dec will be the Paul Hamlyn performance (Cuthbertson as SPF) and the Tuesday 7th Dec matinee will be for schools (so the general public miss Tierny Heap as SPF ☹️ )