Henry

A few hours later ROH followed up again about Macbooks. " Many thanks for getting back to me. I have been advised that the fix should be hitting Macbooks soon also. With best wishes,

I hadn't heard from ROH about the browser issue, so got in touch again and mentioned that there also was a problem with the seat picker and Macbooks. This was the rather nice reply. Many thanks for getting in touch and apologies that you received no acknowledgement of your email. I can assure you though it has been actioned and I received the following response from our Web Development team - “Actually its a recognised bug caused by switching from the old to the new checkout and the browser caching a session key that then disables SeatCurve. The team have found the fix for this, and we will be deploying as soon as we can.” From your message below, it sounds like it has been successfully deployed. They may or may not be aware that it is still an issue with Macbooks, but I will pass on this very helpful feedback. Apologies again and with best wishes,

Bug in the new seat picker: Several times in the last few days I have tried to book seats using the new seat picker. I found that clicking on the seat, the window (showing the seat details, view from seat and the button for selecting), did not appear. I just supposed that the seat wasn't available. By accident I found that if I used the browser Microsoft Edge instead of my usual Chrome, it worked and the seat details did appear allowing selection. I was trying to book seats for the Linbury Theatre. I've emailed ROH to let them look at the issue. Has anyone else had the same problem?

Thanks @Bluebird and @Saodan. That's amazingly useful!

May I ask how did you find that photo of vew from Balcony B73? Are the views from all the seats available? Seems very useful. I couldn't find views from the seats on the ROH website.

Personally, I would very much like to see Mr Ella's Romeo.

For the 19th Feb matinee Mr Ellla is cast as both Benvolio and Mandolin dancer. Seems a lot to ask. https://www.roh.org.uk/events/l07x1

May I ask is that for the matinee or evening performance?

Ms Rojo as Mrs Robinson and Mr Isaac Hernandez as Benjamin?

On the subject of wigs...Looking at the "Rob S" photos above, have the Russian Dancers lost their beards? Has Mr O'Hare made an announcement? Were there technical problems?? Is the connected with the recent casting of Ms Haegee Lee in this role???

I see that in Saturday 8th Jan evening's Nutcracker, the Russian dance is danced by the soprano Haegee Lee. I suppose that staff absences are biting hard and flexibility is required. Anyone noticed other unusual castings? Is this a role debut?

Though, it needs to be remembered that in the Nutcracker, as in Petrushka, the characters are toys, puppets, dolls and not people. Colombine and Petrushka are not examples of "White Face". The Nutcracker is not referencing Chinese people in the "Chinese Dance". It was referencing Meissen porcelain nodding dolls. There are other ballets where this does not apply.

Do the sad problems at the Royal Ballet mean that dancers haven't been getting vaccinated?