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suggest everyone bookmarks (make a favourite) this link in the web browser of their choice. Will come in handy, I promise!

well, it was brand new when it was first made... 😉

yes, looks like my trains out for the 6th. So tram/tube it is - just as well Nutcracker a relatively early finish

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sorry to jump in: Aklf - your PM mailbox is virtually maxed out, suggest you delete a good few of the oldest messages to make space

It wasn't your helpful post that the 'negativity' was about Jenny, more the increasingly unavailability of shows due to ticket price increases for many of us. So please keep posting any tips you find - as you say, it may have helped someone who doesn't have to be ultra careful with their spending 🙂

I think your interpretation nails it Anne! 😞

I'd give the audience a break - the make-up of it probably had a large number of non-regular theatre/ballet goers for whom it would have been a marvelous novelty (first time attendance?), so can hardly blame them for being excitable

I don't mind most of the more joyous shouts in the town square, seems in tune with what's going on. The bits I really don't like is the 'appreciative' exclamations around the gypsy campfire - sounds like dirty old men lusting after a lap dancer

somewhat ironically, I had given up going to my local Vue (15mins walk away) because they always cocked it up (and the price rise from £12 to £24 not helping). But tonight - no problem at all! (except the gloom, which I doubt was their fault)

My Vue (off Purley Way near the Ikea in West Croydon) doesn't seem to do encore shows at all - and isn't even doing the Nutcracker live stream in December this time around. Mind you, as there were only 6 of us in the Screen 1 autitorium this evening (out of 85 recliner seats), you have to wonder how many more they will cover in the future 😞 As for the show this evening - enjoyed it well enough, though whether it's the lighting, the camera work, or a combination of the two, it wasn't half gloomy - even in the sunny town square (where sunny = beige, and indoors = dark brown)

I think I've pulled a bit of a fast one 🙂 Sky Cinema offer two tickets per month for a free cinema visit, to be used Sunday-Thursday. Now I assumed this was for a standard film, but just for cheek I tried one of this month's codes for the DonQ cinema relay tomorrow - and it worked!!! So I'm there for nowt, along with about 7-8 other people at the moment. Bit of a result!

Not a pet owner, but just dislike fireworks, especially in local gardens. We had our usually double whammy last night - the smaller 'displays' before 8pm, then what seemed louder ones when people got back from the big public displays (the big Saturday night ones in parks etc) at about 10.30-11pm And something to look forward to again this evening no doubt (the official bonfire night)

can't you see them as a 'guest'?

Yes, wouldn't it be great to just get the tickets you want (and nice ones at that!) and have the only worry is that you don't clash with other dates, raher than clashing with the bank manager (or CC company!)

I think that may have been the lighting, which was much better at Sadlers Wells, than the limited facilties for the lighting bods at the Linbury just found my old photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dancetabs/33574106166/in/album-72157679805542411/

On reflection, I'm rather wishing I'd bought a ticket to more than one performance later this month...

ditto

Sounds like the giveaway didn't work out The Sound of Music springs to mind: G: You gave all your dresses to the poor when you entered the abbey? M: Yes! G: What about that one? (the one she was wearing) M: Oh, the poor didn't want this one...

ah - you beat me to it above, must have been typing at the same time (and I'm slower!)

Perhaps Akane's injury worse than we feared... OR Perhaps they are lined up for the June fixtures

I think it's a 'Wayneism' that he does instead of counts 🙂

Opens tonight (31st October). I see they have put up the cast sheets for all performances already 🙂

I'll be trying my best to

I think it's for a camera 'rehearsal' for the cinema relay, and to have a backup for wonkey moments on the live relay, should they decide to release a dvd.