alison Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Is Naghdi replacing Morera? I'm afraid external venues tend to have a pretty poor attitude to updating things like casting information - I've regularly noticed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josephine Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 (edited) 19 hours ago, Petunia said: But, but, but... https://tickets.barbican.org.uk/eticketing/performancelist.asp?shoID=43490 this is quite confusing. Kenneth MacMillan: Steps Back in Time Viviana Durante Company 18 Apr–21 Apr 2018, Pit Theatre And then ther are performances listed on the 19.-21.April, at 19:45 I had to phone the Barbican Box Office for a different query but asked about this as well. They confirmed that there is no performance of MacMillan: Steps Back in Time on Thursday 19 April. I have to admit that I'm still confused given the information from their website listing in the link quoted above! Edited April 11, 2018 by Josephine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Just seen that the performance on 19 April to be broadcast on ROH YouTube: http://www.roh.org.uk/news/watch-live-kenneth-macmillan-steps-back-in-time-from-the-barbican-on-19-april-2018 So there is a performance on 19th but don't quite know how Francesca Hayward manages to be at the Barbican and the ROH for Manon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuthE Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 I've just asked that very question (awaiting moderation) in the comments section on that page! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Far from wanting to point fingers, but first the extended muddle of the seating (is all that finally resolved now?); then the casting vagaries; and now the ongoing mystery of the 19th, anybody coming to this from the outside might form the impression that the people running this show are out of their depth. No doubt everything has an explanation, but really... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuthE Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 3 hours ago, RuthE said: I've just asked that very question (awaiting moderation) in the comments section on that page! Well, my comment still hasn’t appeared... but the names of all the dancers have now been mysteriously removed from the article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 3 hours ago, RuthE said: Well, my comment still hasn’t appeared... but the names of all the dancers have now been mysteriously removed from the article. Although the photo of Francesca Hayward is still used to highlight the link to the YouTube broadcast. I was assuming the publicity for the broadcast had been prepared before the Manon cast changes but I guess the publicity could have been better handled. It can take the ROH website quite some time for comments to be posted and RuthE's comment may not appear until after the weekend - we're rather spoiled by the instant access provided by this Forum! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard LH Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 On 4/11/2018 at 13:38, Josephine said: I had to phone the Barbican Box Office for a different query but asked about this as well. They confirmed that there is no performance of MacMillan: Steps Back in Time on Thursday 19 April. I have to admit that I'm still confused given the information from their website listing in the link quoted above! It is also absent from the events calendar for the 19th on the Barbican's What's On page. https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on?dates[min]=2018-04-19&dates[max]=2018-04-19 Perhaps the performance on the 18th is being recorded and shown on the 19th (i.e. not "live" but an "encore")? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Ruth's question is visible now, but no sign of an answer that I can see: http://www.roh.org.uk/news/watch-live-kenneth-macmillan-steps-back-in-time-from-the-barbican-on-19-april-2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petunia Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 It seems we're all in for a surprise... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard LH Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 7 hours ago, Richard LH said: It is also absent from the events calendar for the 19th on the Barbican's What's On page. https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on?dates[min]=2018-04-19&dates[max]=2018-04-19 Perhaps the performance on the 18th is being recorded and shown on the 19th (i.e. not "live" but an "encore")? Or perhaps there is a live streamed performance on the 19th but no audience? (Now replying to my own posts. SAD!) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 If anyone on here actually has a ticket for the 19th, please, please say so because that would settle the mystery 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuthE Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 7 hours ago, Ian Macmillan said: Ruth's question is visible now, but no sign of an answer that I can see: http://www.roh.org.uk/news/watch-live-kenneth-macmillan-steps-back-in-time-from-the-barbican-on-19-april-2018 And now that the names have been removed from the article, it looks as if I commented on something that wasn’t even mentioned in the article. Though even out of that context it’s a fair question given that the casting on the Barbican website still names Hayward (and nobody else) for Laiderette. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Yasmine Naghdi will be replacing Frankie Hayward in Laiderette on the 19th. Great news! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 5 hours ago, capybara said: If anyone on here actually has a ticket for the 19th, please, please say so because that would settle the mystery I do....! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 What I want to know is how anyone managed to book a ticket for a performance which isn't showing up on the system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 The show on the 19th (begins at 7.45pm) is going to be live streamed here: http://youtube.com/royaloperahouse Then available for a further 30 days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 11 hours ago, Sim said: Yasmine Naghdi will be replacing Frankie Hayward in Laiderette on the 19th. Great news! except i'm at Sad Wells that night (seeing this on Fri 20th) - so really glad it will be recorded online for 30 days! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josephine Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 10 hours ago, alison said: What I want to know is how anyone managed to book a ticket for a performance which isn't showing up on the system Perhaps it is a performance for an invited audience only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Apparently not....I asked the BO this morning and they said that it had been open to the public like all the others, but that it's sold out so maybe that's why it's not showing. They are all sold out, however!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 And none of the performances were anything like sold out when I booked, and there was still no 19th showing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Curioser and curioser....unless the BO is misinformed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 The Box Office clerk I spoke to last week initially said the performance on the 19th was a closed one. Later in the conversation, he contradicted himself and told me there was no performance that night. It is, indeed, a most curious situation! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 It doesn't appear that the poor staff at the box office have been given any concrete information whatsoever, about this performance (judging by the variety of answers we are all getting when we phone up), about who is actually dancing on the night, about why the whole ticket debacle happened.....I feel very sorry for them because they are the ones who have to deal with angry members of the public. This seems to be a bit of a PR disaster; how hard can it be to just disseminate the facts to those who are public-facing?? This lack of knowledge isn't fair to the public, the dancers or the box office staff. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoko.A Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Viviana Durante was on In Tune on R3 yesterday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0xb5k 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 3 hours ago, Tomoko.A said: Viviana Durante was on In Tune on R3 yesterday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0xb5k Thank you, Tomoko. I just checked and the segment starts at around 18 minutes 42 seconds into the programme with the music from Laiderette (Frank Martin's Petite Symphonie Concertante). There is then a brief interview with Viviana Durante followed by some music from Danses Concertantes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard LH Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Katie Derham's introductory remarks that Viviana Durante has now "created her own ballet company" seems an exaggeration - as Durante acknowledges herself, "I don't have dancers in my company". I would suggest "Viviana Durante Company" is more of a production vehicle than a "ballet company", in the usually understood sense. Incidentally, isn't it rather bad form to advertise the event (on the Viviana Durante website) with reference to Thiago Soares, Lauren Cuthbertson, Francesca Hayward, Yasmine Naghdi, Meaghan Grace Hinkis, Akane Takada and Benjamin Ella without mentioning that they are all Royal Ballet dancers? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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