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  1. Bruce Wall
    Oh, Jane. Thanks so for this. It means much. Bless you.
  2. Bruce Wall
    Casting now up for Royal Ballet in NYC (Koch Theater). Source. Nice to see Cuthbertson, Pennefather and Zucchetti returned. A very interesting selection of divertissements both old and new.
  3. Bruce Wall
    Out of curiosity did anyone here see Melissa Hayden dance Lise with SWRB? If so I would be very curious to know what you thought?
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    To each their own, Alison. It might help stop people having to rush out before the end of the performance to meet their train/transport schedule - or some people actually having to miss the last act for the same reason (and their concern of potentially having to disturb others in doing so). Of course I realise how important the commercial food and drink sales are to the ROH enterprise. The new development plans both for the ROH and ENO make that practically clear and it is, of course, necessitated by an understandable desire to shift away from the ultimately precarious reliance on any specific rate/quota of state subsidy. On Broadway while auxiliary concessions are, of course, important, they are not key as towards the prime economic focus/drive of any theatre. They simply can't be as they are/were not built for it and were never intended to have been. In that way neither the ROH or the MET, say, would be rightful considerations in this regard - whereas the Koch, for example, might well be as its primary function now is to serve dance (given the sad demise of NYCO). Balanchine made this clear when he played such a key role in its construct/design. It too is part of his legacy. If the historic Broadway theatres - where you literally walk into the auditorium from the street given that many lobbies are so shallow so as to be almost invisible - were to challenge the vast array of restaurants that surround them I think it might well come to proverbial blows by eatery owners - not to mention various trade unions. Too IF the economy of time at the ROH was to be a bit more strictly pressed in terms of honouring the intervals I have a feeling that overall respect of need would ultimately demand that available female toilet facilities might be made suitable to overall purpose - but this is, of course, well away from the stated topic at hand and so I will stop and shift back to matters with some relevance to AiP's specific regard.
  6. Bruce Wall
    It is refreshing to note that on Broadway AiP has ONE FIFTEEN MINUTE INTERMISSION. Source: http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/Whos_who/14074 Would that the ROH might follow suit for intervals.
  7. Bruce Wall
    A life rich in true wonderment.
  8. Bruce Wall
    Lyn, I should think the Tony Awards will give you a definitive answer in just over a month.
  9. Bruce Wall
    They are obviously recording the AiP album today ... Here's a pic of Fairchild in the process: https://instagram.com/p/1tWqrcRWgr/ Oh, and balletic royalty: https://instagram.com/p/1beWK5OiPt/
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    AiP BO climbs 40% after boffo reviews: http://variety.com/2015/legit/news/american-in-paris-sales-broadway-1201475824/ Plus here's yet another addition to the host of praising voices: http://blogcritics.org/theater-review-broadway-an-american-in-paris/
  11. Bruce Wall
    Oh, Tony, I'm sure that Leanne Cope would return to guest with the RB even IF she was to be based at a more senior level elsewhere. She comes across in all interviews and reports as just such a lovely person as well as a talented dancer/performing artiste.
  12. Bruce Wall
    I honestly can't believe that Robbie Fairchild will leave his principal post with NYCB for Broadway. I'm sure that he - and, indeed, his wife - fellow principal Tiler Peck who has already made her Broadway debut - may well have extended leaves at certain times to create roles in musicals - much, say, as Robbie Le Fosse did for 'Jerome Robbins on Broadway' before returning to finish his lengthy career with NYCB. Surely Fairchild/Peck create far too many roles in too many ballets at NYCB to do otherwise. That is where the real history is made after all. I agree it may be a different situation for Leanne Cope. The well established protocols for promotions at the Royal Ballet may understandably be difficult for her to rightfully manage now. That said I would imagine Cope could now write her own ticket into a senior post in any one of a variety of other much admired companies. People were talking on another BcoF page about a potential guesting slot for the upcoming RB Giselles. I would love to see Ms. Cope and Mr. Fairchild have a crack at that for one or two performances ONLY. Whereas he has danced leads in Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, MSND, Coppelia, Nutcracker, a vast swathe of Balanchine, Robbins, Wheeldon, Ratmansky, etc., (and even had two pieces created for him by Liam Scarlett) he has - as far as I know - never given the world his Albrecht. It would, I think, be a début for both of them. I realise, of course, this is probably not probable for very concrete reasons at the ROH. NYCB is to launch a new production of La Sylphide in the Spring season ... and I'm sure it will be repeated in the Fall and if not then shortly afterwards. it would be lovely if the two of them could do a couple of performances of that perhaps. Certainly Ms. Cope has/will have built her principal stealth through doing eight performances a week as Lise in AiP.
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    Nominations for the first major theatre awards of the 2014/15 Broadway season - the long standing Outer Critics Circle Awards - have today been announced. AiP get eight (one more than the Broadway production of Wolf Hall.) Leanne Cope is nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Musical in a very heady (and well established) field. Outstanding New Play will definitely go to a British source as all candidates are from the UK. Christopher Wheeldon is nominated for both Direction of a Musical and Choreography. Fellow Brit Bob Crowley also receives a very well deserved nod for his AiP set designs. (He also gets a costume nomination for The Audience.) American (NYCB prinicpal) Robert Fairchild gets a nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. His sister, (another NYCB principal) Megan Fairchild gets a nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for On the Town. Crucially AiP is nominated as 'Outstanding New Broadway Musical'. That's the 'money in the bank' item. Very often these awards give a strong indication as towards the Tony (Antoinette Perry) Award nominations which will be announced in the last week of this month. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/outer-critics-circle-nominees-announced-something-rotten-leads-the-pack-347165 OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Kristin Chenoweth On the Twentieth Century Leanne Cope An American in Paris Tyne Daly It Shoulda Been You Kelli O’Hara The King and I Chita Rivera The Visit
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    Two Brits and an American on a Manhattan couch ... chatting ... Oh, and Leanne Cope tries on some potential Broadway opening frocks ...
  15. Bruce Wall
    But doesn't that somehow defeat the purpose of the overall proposed ten year plan for original narrative works? Or does it merely take 'looseness' to a new height? Sometimes I just think I'm TOO OLD ... and that - ultimately - is the answer.
  16. Bruce Wall
    As a side note, it has just been announced that Cojocaru (ex RB, current ENB, Hamburg, Romania, etc.) will appear in place of the Bolshoi's Smirnova (due to injury) in ABT's BAYADERE. Chudin (not injured - in fact danced in the YGAP gala in NYC this past week as did RB's Hamilton and Underwood in QUALIA PDD) will be replaced by ABT's Cornejo who will be appearing in RB's presentation next season of M. Clarke's CHERI.
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    Thought this might be of interest to a few people here: BEING ALICE – 20 APRILKiera Vaclavik (Curator of the V&A Museum of Childhood exhibition, The Alice Look, and Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London) discusses what it is to play Alice and the wide ranging influence with the novel with former Alices Fiona Fullerton (Alice in the 1972 film starring Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore and Michael Crawford),Lauren Cuthbertson (Alice in the 2011 Royal Ballet production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon) and Fflur Wyn (who is reprising her performance as Alice in the forthcoming Opera Holland Park production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland). It's on Monday night. For full details reference here.
  18. Bruce Wall
    RB casting for the Kennedy Center has been announced: Marianela Nunez, Carlos Acosta – Tue., June 9 & Fri., June 12 at 7:30 p.m. Sarah Lamb, Federico Bonelli – Wed., June 10 at 7:30 p.m. Iana Salenko, Steven McRae – Thu., June 11 at 7:30 p.m., Sat. June 13 at 1:30 p.m. Natalia Osipova, Matthew Golding – Sat., June 13 at 7:30 p.m. Roberta Marquez, Alexander Campbell – Sun., June 14 at 1:30 p.m.
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    I doubt sincerely that Marcelo Gomes will appear in Wimbledon as I'm sure he must be in rehearsal for the May openings by ABT at the MET.
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    A peek in time for those not fortunate enough to find themselves in Milan for the above performances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lLWy0r851M
  21. Bruce Wall
    For those who might like to see Leanne Cope tackle her first tap shoes you can pull through to approximately 8.04 here.
  22. Bruce Wall
    Muntagirov offered a beautifully buoyant Colas in his role debut to Morera's stunningly precise and heart warming Lise - (she being a chip off the old(er) block of Tuckett's endearingly winsome Widow Simone's embrace) - leaving all (and sundry) within reach of a ray of Suffolk sun. Even the delighted Shetland pony made repeated reverence to this ardently cordial Ashtonian soufflé which both unfolded and evaporated last night with an unimpeachable zeal that was - happily - never pious (as sometimes can be the case).
  23. Bruce Wall
    Proudly Webb is ensuring that this Company in its 25th Anniversary season remains an Ashton stronghold. Source
  24. Bruce Wall
    I have a feeling that Hay - a fine dancer - will be cast in a similar vein to Cervera.
  25. Bruce Wall
    Having seen this last night I must confess - as much as I went wanting to like it - I would not be in disagreement with their determination. For a start, this is a show very much in the wrong venue and here appeared to be a considerable departure at the interval. I'm not certain what those people's expectations were but they obviously were not being met in at least some measure.
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