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  1. bangorballetboy
    This was the first result I got from putting "Phantom Opera London auditions" into google.
  2. bangorballetboy
    197 Albany Street (by Regent's Park). There's also the memorial stone in Westminster Abbey to de Valois, Ashton, Lambert and Fonteyn.
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    Feck.
  4. bangorballetboy
    This one is in Knightsbridge: http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/margot-fonteyn-j-du-pre#
  5. bangorballetboy
    Which means they've already had a stage call!
  6. bangorballetboy
    I agree. It's like "classical music" - there's a generic term for the whole genre (which is, in itself, an amorphous concept) and specifics for styles through time (though, of course, in music "classical" comes before "romantic").
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    Not according to her bio...
  8. bangorballetboy
    Just to mention that Georgia is a cover for Meg and, having seen her do it, she was very good. IIRC she was young Cosette in Les Mis and in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a child, so probably not the best example!
  9. bangorballetboy
    Georgia Ware went from Royal Ballet School into Phantom of the Opera...
  10. bangorballetboy
    Students only in the amphi for that performance.
  11. bangorballetboy
    I think it was Elizabeth McGorian in Solo For 2
  12. bangorballetboy
    Yes, my preference is for opera in the "original language" and I think ENO needs to change its policy if it wants to survive.
  13. bangorballetboy
    Yes, Marie Virginie Avengo is Virginie Amélie's mother. The family story is outlined in the first chapter of Deborah Davis's book.
  14. bangorballetboy
    Thought it might be useful to repeat here an update sent to FoCG. Open Up UpdateHoarding has gone up in the Front of House area to allow work to begin on the building of a staircase down to the new toilets on the lower level. This week we are opening a new cloakroom on the Amphitheatre level so please use this space if you have Amphitheatre tickets. Space will be limited so please assist us by avoiding bringing large items wherever possible. The revolving doors on Bow Street will be shut from 22 February, so please use the Covent Garden piazza entrance for access to the Box Office. The building is now unavailable for daytime events, and spaces including the Amphitheatre bar and restaurant will be closed during the day so that the complex schedule of works can be done as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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    It's easy to recreate or re-envisage as it has a very simple plot (can be easily summarised in two sentences), but one which has a lot of undertones about the human psyche.
  16. bangorballetboy
    You're imagining it. It's 1130 on Saturday 9 July.
  17. bangorballetboy
    Does not compute. Does not compute.
  18. bangorballetboy
    On matinée timings, I have noted that the 1230 RB starts are usually on Saturdays when there is not also an RB performance in the evening. If it's a double header, the matinée starts later. I assume that this is for the dancers' benefit, so that they have more of their Saturday to enjoy if there's no evening show.
  19. bangorballetboy
    It's very unhelpful. I note that my tweet to RB asking whether casting info would be provided before booking was ignored.
  20. bangorballetboy
    OK. I've done my booking this morning. The default position is delivery of tickets as usual but there is an option to select e-tickets. The blurb says that e-tickets will be emailed a week before the performance; however, you can access the e-tickets through the "upcoming events" section of your account. From there you can either view the e-ticket in a web browser ( sor choose to have the e-tickets sent through by email. The e-ticket is two pages - the first with a summary (looks like a ticket) and ROH info and the second with the e-ticket itself (i.e. with a QR code). Annoyingly (but not a disaster), if you book two tickets, they both come up on the same e-ticket page (i.e. it will print both tickets on the same piece of paper). I haven't yet tried to put an e-ticket into my iPhone wallet. If you do not select e-tickets, you will not be able to access e-tickets through your "upcoming events".
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    And thanks for the reminder that it's not at 1130 as stated on my ticket!
  22. bangorballetboy
    I started tap, thanks to Morecombe and Wise. Progressing into other forms of dance I realised a couple of years of basic ballet would help everything be stronger.
  23. bangorballetboy
    Because they can't charge supporters £10,000 to follow the company on tour in the UK. Anyway, the English National Ballet tours the UK...
  24. bangorballetboy
    I am very aware of the situation, thank you. The foundation is ineffectual because it does not have any rights to the ballets. The ballet owners (generally) support the foundation because, by "looking after" the Ashton style, it enhances their assets (i.e. it maintains or increases the value of the ballets). However, the ballet owners wish, to use an Ashtonian analogy, to have both the big orange and the little one; they want the foundation to be funded using other people's money, whilst continuing to reap the royalties themselves. The obvious answer is for the owners to transfer their rights to the ballets to the foundation in return for a percentage of the royalties. The foundation would then be funded by the remainder of the royalties.
  25. bangorballetboy
    Indeed. If only the owners of the Ashton ballets could set up a *proper* foundation to actually own the ballets, funded by royalties, then maybe they'd have some clout over how companies record the Ashton rep for posterity.
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