Rob S

I made sure I watched Romany Pajdak's trick at the end of the gypsy couple piece again, I only just saw it first time around

I also loved Yuhui as the Queen of the Dryads, too bad she didn't have a curtain call, she looked beautiful in that dress

12 minutes ago, lakeylakes said:

And Bravo to Romany for many many other things. All the Royal Ballet dancers are Super Troupers but Romany is a Super Super Trouper. 

Super Duper Trouper, surely...

Letting people know this ticket has now gone 

2 hours ago, Richard LH said:

I find the same thing Dawnstar. This is the best I could  achieve last night.

 

Focus shouldn't be a problem, it’s exposure that can be an issue for the red run which is why I use spot metering 

9 hours ago, Dawnstar said:

. Gartside was unrecognisable & very amusing (does anyone know who was playing his eventual bride tonight?).

9 hours ago, Dawnstar said:

 

Apart from the gigantic flowers in the Act 2 dream scene I really liked the production (oh and the shadow characters who looked to be wearing black versions of Klu Klax Klan robes!). 

 

 

It was Lara Turk.

I think the KKK wear white versions of their robes 😉

18 minutes ago, Thalia said:

Regarding the cast changes – the printed notice had a couple of the dancers’ names misspelt. Apparently, Valentio Zucchetti was replaced by Lukas Brændsroød...

 

I think that tells us everything about how they are treating cast changes at the moment. 

And PHLIP MOSLEY.....as in what the phlip is going on with all the typos!!!??

The dynamic Don Q duo

2 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

 I was very impressed by the lead couple's final lift/throw.

Yes, me too, I wanted to rewind and watch that bit again! 

45 minutes ago, Lizbie1 said:

 

What a cliffhanger! Let us know what happens next...

 

They were still in the Royal box for Act 2....it’s not an important seat change Mr Usher 😀

I’m D4 

Tell Gary Avis!! 😀

Interesting situation shortly before the start, there I was innocently standing at my Stalls Circle Standing position when a couple walk up to me and say they have my position and the one next to it...then a man comes up and says he has the position next to me....we all have correctly dated email screens or print outs. A member of staff promptly appears and then goes off to find out what to do, the couple then get ‘upgraded’ to the rear seats of the Royal box ‘for the first act while they sort something out’.

Incidentally, Nuñez and Muntagirov were amazeballs in the first act 💃🙂

11 minutes ago, Dawnstar said:

I'm there this evening & had been wondering if anyone else from here would also be there & interested in meeting up. However as I haven't seen much ballet I'm not sure if I'd be able to say anything interesting enough on the subject to make it worth anyone's while meeting me.

Yep that sums me up too....I'll be there this evening and available to say things like 'wasn't it great when the main woman did that...thing'

6 hours ago, alison said:

As episodes of this series go, it wasn't exactly one of the most scintillating, to put it mildly, but it was good to have a bit of a look in on the RBS.  I can't see them ever having got away with simply having a glass of champers without any further coverage of the venue and its function if it had been one of his European journeys, say to Vienna or somewhere.

Great British Railway Journeys is never scintillating, but I enjoy it 😂

It was copyright 2018 at the end so it's not a repeat

Just spotted that in tonight's episode Michael Portillo 'visits the Royal Ballet School in Covent Garden and hears how in 1909 a Russian ballet company took London by storm.'

Something to see on the iPlayer if you didn't see this heads up in time

4 minutes ago, Sim said:

The wrong score was on his music stand so he had to dash back in and get the right one.  

Did some cunning joker put the score for Foxy Lady there? 🦊 

6 minutes ago, alison said:

Talking of Barry Wordsworth, what was the incident with the score on Tuesday?  I didn't quite catch all of it.

 

And was it the same cast for Vixen last night, or different?

Same cast last night 

1 minute ago, Josephine said:

 

A 1960s production photo featuring Christopher Gable and Lynn Seymour (I think) appears to show three pigeons! This is a cropped detail, as the full image was too large to upload here. I have been unable to confirm the photographer's name.

 

Moderators: please remove image if my posting it here contravenes AUP. Thank you.

That must be the same non compliant pigeon as yesterday, it looks exactly the same!!😮

Yes that cracked me up when I saw it, a real world Two Pigeons in a bar 😂

Last night's team

In tonight’s episode of Pigeonwatch: Pigeon flies past the Young Man’s outstretched hand and parks itself on the right hand edge of the stage, with a comical raised eyebrow the Young Man dashes off without his bird. The next scene starts and The Wayward Pigeon starts to fly around the stage, is this to be the premiere of The Three Pigeons!? No, at the last moment it flies off stage to the right and everyone can relax.

Join us next week in a novel tv schedule mashup as we ask the Pigeon handler if they want to....Love It Or List It. Phil Spence tries to find a more  reliable pigeon while Kirstie Allsop seeks to rearrange the insides of the current pigeon on a budget of just £20,000 

‘No, I don’t think they are real pigeons....’ woman heading to the bar at the first interval this evening  😂

I’ve got to wait 13 days 😫

30 minutes ago, LinMM said:

Didn't notice Royalty was present last night but did see Alan Titchmarsh in the downstairs  " cafe" before the performance. 

 

 

 

I saw Mr Tits-Pervert from Bridget Jones's Diary two rows in front of me.....I managed to take a panoramic view from my seat featuring both him and HRH🙂

This sums up what I thought of her 🙂

I thought the Cunning Little Vixen was great fun although I couldn’t see the projection screen from the Stalls Circle