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Post by Dawnstar on May 9, 2021 11:43:25 GMT
Roxie How annoying for you. Most people feel a bit like that after having the vaccine, not before!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 6, 2021 12:36:32 GMT
I too think I booked the same seat I had for last year, however this time I also had to book the seat next to it. As TallPaul has already pointed out, it was cheaper than booking any single seat. And I thought I'd better go as cheap as possible as I don't know yet whether I'll actually be able to risk going up to Leeds come July.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 5, 2021 19:29:03 GMT
I see it is stated towards the end that the dogs were twins. Maybe they'd also appeared in a production of Die Walkure & had picked up some ideas!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 5, 2021 19:25:00 GMT
Gosh. Life is for living. You're 26. It's only for living if you aren't dead. Young people can die of Covid too, and none of us know what underlying health conditions we may have undiagnosed! Or how we might react in terms of long Covid, which could very much restrict living. Exactly. Someone I follow on Twitter got covid in March 2020 & is still suffering from long covid. She tweets things like she's exhausted just from walking down the road to her nearest shop. She's hardly going to be able to jump on a train to London when the theatres re-open. Personally I'm not afraid of dying of covid, I'm afraid of being ill for months/years. (I'm also absolutely petrified of giving it to my mother, but that's a separate issue.)
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Post by Dawnstar on May 4, 2021 14:43:39 GMT
I don't think she can be their stepmother — there's no King around. So she must be Queen in her own right, otherwise Prince Charming would already be King. Another option would be that she's the regent for Prince Charming, but he'd still be called King, and is clearly over 18 anyway. If he's actually abdicated or is presumed dead, the crown would have gone to Prince Seb. I suppose she could be Queen, who married a man with children and adopted them, but that doesn't seem to fit with conventional fairy tales tropes, and Belleville is all about the fairy tale tropes. Perhaps the King was black and both the Princes are mixed race? (And yes, I'm possibly putting more thought into this than it warrants!) I thought maybe they hadn't announced the casting of a King yet, as they've only just announced Prince Charming.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 4, 2021 13:50:16 GMT
Maybe theatres should have mask-wearing & non-mask-wearing sections of the audience after 21st June. If I dare venture down to London later this summer (which is by no means certain) I would feel more comfortable if I knew I would be sitting next & near to others who like me will choose continue to wear a mask rather than those like Mark who will refuse to do so after 21st June unless forced by law.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 4, 2021 13:44:21 GMT
Looking at the pictures of the Queen and the Princes, I can only assume she's been nipping off to the Fairy Godmother for a bit of 'help'. Either that or she was a teenage mum! Maybe she's only their stepmother? Which would make genetic sense given she's white & both Princes are black. Maybe Cinderella & Prince Sebastian could bond over both having stepmothers they don't get on with.
Given all the publicity a while back about Andy Rees as a Baker character, it's a bit odd to see him credited as a Swing on the website.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 4, 2021 13:38:28 GMT
It's nice to see a reasonable number of actors who aren't straight out of drama school. However I looked at Earl Carpenter & Nic Greenshields in the ensemble while Bradley Jaden is Javert & though hmmmm.....
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 29, 2021 20:39:05 GMT
Quirijn de Lang was excellent in Kiss Me Kate. However I was not enthralled by Stephanie Corley ... acting is not her strongest suit. A pity Jeni Bern, who was Lili Vanessi in ON's first run of KMK & when WNO borrowed the production, hasn't been booked for ALNM as I thought she was better than Stephanie Corley as Lili & can imagine her being good as Desiree. But I still want to try to see it just for Quirijn de Lan, who I've thought excellent in everything I've seen him do (2 runs of Nozze di Figaro, 3 runs of KMK, & The Merry Widow).
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 29, 2021 12:00:54 GMT
The SW and tour runs are separate beasts, with partially different casts. Has there been a cast announcement? The Sadler's Wells website only names Adam Cooper & I'd like to know the rest of the leads at least before deciding whether to go - especially as when I saw it in the WE Cooper was off (& it was one of the few occasions where I've found an understudy unsatisfactory) so I wouldn't have 100% confidence he'd be on if I tried seeing it this summer!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 29, 2021 11:56:48 GMT
A distinct lack of casting info - do many people book ALNM for the Madame Armfeldt? - but the mid-June to mid-July dates make me think I might be able to go after all, as I should have my 2nd jab the first week in July so if I booked for the last week of the run...
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 28, 2021 20:12:33 GMT
And part of what saddens me about that is that means there will be no one in the cast who will ever have worked with Hal Prince. Or Gillian Lynne. Didn't Gillian Lynne come in & work with each new cast until near the end of her life? If I'm remembering that correctly then at least 2 members of cast, Killian Donnelly & Tim Morgan, would have worked with her during their previous stints in Phantom. (In yet another instance of slightly dodgy press release comments, the statement from ALW that "I am thrilled to announce our first entirely new cast" isn't quite accurate given at least 4 people in the new cast have been in Phantom previously.)
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 28, 2021 11:17:51 GMT
I don’t understand your “change is coming?” Have you seen Six? Lion King? Hamilton? Colour blind casting in Les Mis decades ago.
I find it a bit odd that there have been loads of comments on social media about a black actress playing Christine but I haven't seen any comments about an Asian actress playing Carlotta. Surely that is equally diverse? It sometimes seems as though people saying they want more diversity only care about more visibility of black people and not about any other ethnicities.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 22, 2021 16:55:15 GMT
Just leaving this here
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 21, 2021 18:54:56 GMT
I wouldn't drink any of them but might apply paint the colour of B2 or C2 to my walls!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 19, 2021 20:30:35 GMT
The filming, the camera angles etc were pretty good, the filming of the piper was worthy of an Oscar, but they cant get the commentary right at these events, can they? I found the filming of the piper slightly disconcerting because the audio & video didn't go together at one point. The sound was evidently being recorded by a fixed microphone so we could hear him moving away. However the camera zoomed to follow him part of the time. So for a few seconds sonically he was moving away but visually wasn't, which I found a disconcerting mis-match.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 17, 2021 15:43:55 GMT
I found the procession beforehand more moving than the actual funeral service. Between Nimrod, Jerusalem, Abide With Me, etc. I got through several hankies.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 17, 2021 15:42:21 GMT
And I am definitely in the camp of hating Marmite. For someone who hates so many foodstuffs, I oddly don't mind Marmite. I rarely eat it but would if, for instance, I was visiting someone & was offered it. I find it funny that the food that is the definition of love or hate is one of the few foods that I neither love nor hate!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 16, 2021 21:07:11 GMT
39 of the items I wouldn't eat at all. Milk & coconut I wouldn't eat on their own, only as part of recipes. Apples I will only eat cooked. Yogurt I only really like one flavour of one particular brand. Do I need to go on or have I won this one?!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 16, 2021 11:27:46 GMT
A pity it doesn't look like this is being streamed, as I'd like to see it but can't possibly go to Leicester next month.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 12, 2021 19:49:52 GMT
I suppose ENO should be looking at their production scale and considering vast reductions as well give that apparently it's not commercially viable anymore, right? The state of ENO's finances and the scale at which it should operate have been bones of contention in the opera world for decades!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 12, 2021 16:03:52 GMT
Depressing seeing all the media & social media coverage of things re-opening on the same day as being told we have to do pre-operative self-isolating for the next 2 weeks (not me being operated on). Not that I was intending to visit anywhere that has just re-opened but it's still depressing to know I can't even if I did want to.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 11, 2021 21:44:57 GMT
I don't mind older Cosette, just the young one, and even she wouldn't be as bad if Castle On A Cloud wasn't in the score. Young Eponine isn't nearly as annoying, being silent!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 11, 2021 18:51:02 GMT
If a bottle of bleach was included in a delivery then yes I would bleach it.
I don't know why but none of the supermarkets we use have had thin bleach in stock for months so today I had to use thick bleach instead. I discovered that thick bleach is much foamier than thin bleach. There was foam dripping all over the kitchen!
Have you considered Dettol spray Dawnstar ? I feel it would probably be more of a hassle spraying Dettol on each item then using a cloth to wipe it all over than to use a cloth dipped in diluted bleach like I currently do.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 11, 2021 18:47:26 GMT
anything by Gavroche. Am I the only person quite pleased when he's shot? No, but if Cosette was stood close enough for their to be a ‘bullet went straight through’ type scenario, that would be doubly advantageous. Which age Cosette? if the child one I would definitely be up for this! "Castle On A Cloud" almost always sounds off-pitch to me.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 10, 2021 20:03:01 GMT
Do you bleach the bleach? If a bottle of bleach was included in a delivery then yes I would bleach it.
I don't know why but none of the supermarkets we use have had thin bleach in stock for months so today I had to use thick bleach instead. I discovered that thick bleach is much foamier than thin bleach. There was foam dripping all over the kitchen!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 10, 2021 20:00:43 GMT
I had a ticket for this last year but sadly don't think I'm likely to be able to get to Leeds for it this year, given it's about 3 hours each way by train for me. It might depend on when exactly "summer" turns out to be. I would really like to see Quirijn de Lang as Frederik in particular.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 10, 2021 17:29:33 GMT
At least I've managed to do the Waitrose delivery bleaching this afternoon, even if it was rather uncomfortable.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 10, 2021 14:00:11 GMT
That's almost exactly how it happened for me, except I woke up at 01:30. I tried working for a bit but then gave up. I still felt bad first thing the following morning — more exhausted than ill — but it wore off fairly quickly after that. I had a couple of dizzy spells when I got up this morning but am now feeling a bit better, though my left arm is still painful. Did you have AstraZeneca too? I've read that AstraZeneca is supposed to be worse the first time & not as bad the second time so at least that's something.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 9, 2021 19:31:47 GMT
Went to bed at midnight last night feeling okay. Woke up at 2am aching all over & I'm still aching all over now. It's like flu aching but I don't seem to have a temperature, which is slightly odd. Really hoping it wears off before tomorrow afternoon. If my body is this hacked off at having the covid vaccine I'm so glad I managed to avoid getting real covid, as that would presumably feel a lot worse.
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