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Jan 11, 2012 11:46:20 PM Archived Entry: "Live Performance, 2012"

I managed to reduce myself to a mere 136 performances last year.

January
1. Howl's Moving Castle - Southwark Playhouse
2. Guys and Dolls - Upstairs at the Gatehouse
3. Dick Whittington - New Wimbledon Theater
4. Collaborators - National Theater
5. La Soiree - Roundhouse
6. Draft Works - Linbury
7. Pitchfork Disney - Arcola (wretched!)
8. Guys and Dolls - Gatehouse
9. Men in Motion - Sadler's Wells
February
10. Odyssey - Paper Cinema at Battersea Arts Center
11. Singing in the Rain - Palace Theatre
12. Triple Bill (Asphodel Meadows / Enigma Variations / Gloria) - Royal Ballet
13. Olga Pericet - Sadler's Wells
14. Gala Flamenca - Sadler's Wells
15. Rock of Ages - Shaftesbury Theatre
16. The Recruiting Officer - Donmar Warehouse
17. Rafael Amargo - Sadler's Wells
18. Bingo - Young Vic (turgid)
19. Patience - Union Theatre (excellent!)
20. What I Heard About the World - Soho Theatre
March
21. Floyd Collins - Southwark Playhouse (walkout!)
22. Pavlova Gala - London Coliseum
23. Crazy For You - Novello Theater (3rd trip!)
24. 4:48 Psychosis - 4th Monkey Theater
25. Spring Passions (something and Two Pigeons) - Birmingham Royal Ballet at the London Coliseum
26. Coppelia - Birmingham Royal Ballet at the London Coliseum
27. Master and Margarita - Complicite at The Barbican
28. Ladykillers - Gielgud Theatre
29. Going Dark - Young Vic
30. La Bayadere - Paris Opera Ballet
31. Mixed Rep - Paris Opera Ballet
32. Filumena - Almeida Theatre
33. Beyond Ballets Russes - English National Ballet
34. Miss Julie - Young Vic
April

35. In Basildon - Royal Court
36. The Birth of Rinaldo - International Marionette Museum, Palermo
37. Adventura di Rinaldo - Cuttichio et Figlio Puppet Theater in Palermo
38. Triple Bill (Polyphonia, Sweet Violets, etc) - Royal Ballet
39. She Stoops to Conquer - National Theater
40. The Mystery of Edwin Drood - The Landor
41. Caliban's Cave - RETZproduces
42. Hay Fever - Noel Coward Theater
Making Noise Quietly - Donmar Warehouse
43. Streetcar Named Desire - Scottish Ballet at Sadler's Wells
44. Dames at Sea - Union Theater
45. King's Speech - Wyndham's Theater
May
46. La Fille du Regiment - Royal Opera House
47. Einstein on the Beach - Barbican
48. Mister Man - National Theater
49. Snow White - Ballet Prelocaj at Sadler's Wells
50 . What the Butler Saw - Vaudeville Theater
51. Duchess of Malfi - Old Vic Theater
52. La Boheme - Isango Ensemble at Hackney Empire
53. Jordi Savall - European Union - St John's Smith Square
54. Starlight Express - New Wimbledon Theater
55. Flahooley - Lost Musicals at Sadler's Wells
56. La Serenissima - Vivaldi Olypiade - St John's Smith Square
57. Chariots of Fire - Hampstead Theater
58. La Sylphide - Royal Ballet
59. From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony - Westminster Abbey Choir with St. James's Baroque at Westminster Cathedral
60. The Suit - Young Vic Theater
61. Kimberly Marshall - "Bach v. The World "- St John's Smith Square
62. The Claribel - Retz's 6 Part Tempest
63. Abigail's Party - Wyndham's Theater
64. Antigone - National Theater
June
65. CAN CAN CASTAWAYS! in WTF Wednesdays - Can Can Club, Seattle
66. Coppelia - Pacific Northwest Ballet
67. Mixed bill with Ramatsky's Firebird - American Ballet Theater
68. Prospero's Library - Retz's 6 Part Tempest
69. Richmond Ballet - "Made in the USA" - Linbury Theater
70. Crow - Handspring Theater at Greenwich Dance Studio
71. Cantina - Southbank Spiegeltent
72. Alan Cumming's one man Macbeth - Glasgow Tramway
73. Noises Off
74. Henry V - Theater Delicatessen
75. Academy of Ancient Music (French baroque music) - Wigmore Hall
76. Physicists - Donmar Warehouse
July
78. Royal Ballet triple bill (including Les Noces)
79. La Fille Mal Gardee - Munich ballet
80. Steps and Time - Munich Ballet
81. Flora the Red Menace - Landor Theater
82. A Winter's Tale - Propeller at Hampstead Theater
83. 10 Minute Play Competition - New Venture Theater, Brighton
84. Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 - Royal Ballet
85. St John's Night - Jermyn Street Theater
86. Henry V - Propeller at Hampstead Theater
87. Port (sixth installation of The Tempest in Six Parts) – Retz On a Narrowboat
88. The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-time - National Theater
89. Vieux Carre - King's Head Theater
August
90. Mack and Mabel - Southwark Playhouse
91. Curtains - Landor Theater
92. Long Day's Journey into Night - Apollo Theater
93. Julius Caesar - RSC at the Noel Coward Theater
94. Monkey King and other tales - Guizhou Opera at the Hackney Empire
95. Sweeney Todd - Adelphi Theater
97. Chicago - Garrick Theater
98. Volcano - Vaudeville Theater (left this dog early)
99. The Illusion - Southwark Playhouse
September
100. I am a Camera - Southwark Playhouse
101. King Lear - Almeida Theater
102. San Francisco Ballet Prog A - Sadler's Wells
103. San Francisco Ballet Prog B - Sadler's Wells
104. Hamlet - Tiger Lillies at Queen Elizabeth Hall
105. San Francisco Ballet Prog C - Sadler's Wells
106. Love and Information - Royal Court
107. Scenes from an Execution - National Theater (also left this dog at the interval)
108. Miser - Tara Arts
October
109. Ding Dong the Wicked - Royal Court
110. The Busy Body - Southwark Playhouse
111. Desire Under the Elms - Lyric Hammersmith
112. Hotel Plays - Grange Hotel
113. One Day When We Were Young - Paine's Plough at Shoreditch Town Hall
114. Lungs - Paine's Plough at Shoreditch Town Hall
115. Desh - Sadler's Wells
116. Swan Lake - Natalia Osipova at Royal Opera House
117. Timon - National Theater
118. La Nuova Musica - St John's Smith Square
119. Call Me Madam - Union Theater
120. Warhorse - National Theater
121. Rambert Dance - Sadler's Wells
122. Opposites Attract - Birmingham Royal Ballet at Sadler's Wells
123. Autumn Celebration- Birmingham Royal Ballet at Sadler's Wells
November
124. Florentine Intermedia - Brighton Early Music Festival
125. Triple Bill (Infra and others) - Royal Ballet
126. Effect - National Theater
127. Steel Pier - Southwark Playhouse
128. A Winter's Tale (musical version ) - Landor Theater
129. Victor Victoria - Southwark Playhouse
130. The River - Royal Court Theater
131. Love's Comedy - Orange Tree Theater
132. Dark Earth Light Sky - Almeida Theater
133. Medea - Richmond Theater
134. Twelfth Night - Apollo Theater
135. Quimeras - Paco Pena at Sadler's Wells
136. MacMillan Triple - Royal Ballet
137. Taboo - Brixton Club House
December
138. Dick Whittington - Hackney Empire
139. The Magistrate - National Theater
140. Our Boys -
141. Privates on Parade - Noel Coward Theatre
142. Dick Whittington Goes Bollywood - Tara Arts
143. Robin Hood - Greenwich Playhouse
144. Julius Caesar - Donmar Warehouse
145. The Architects - Shunt at the Biscuit Factory
146. Kiss Me Kate - Old Vic
147. Cinderella - Matthew Bourne at Sadler's Wells (left early as ill)
148. Belshazzar - Les Arts Florissants at the Barbican (left early as ill)
149. Midnight's Pumpkin - Kneehigh at the Battersea Arts Center
150. Victor Victoria (again) - if this doesn't count Godless Lessons and Carols might
151. Messiah - Apollo Chamber Choir and Orchestra at St John's Smith Square
152. Dance of Death - Trafalgar Studios
153. Byrd at Christmas - Cardinall's Musick at St John's Smith Square
154. In Praise of the True Vine - Tallis Scholars at St John's Smith Square
155. Old Russian Christmas - Philharmonie (Munich)
156. Munich Motet Choir - St Matthews (Munich)
157. Festival Music for Christmas Eve - Edgar Krapp, Guido Segers, Katja Stuber)- Philharmonie (Munich)
158. Aurora – Theater of Magic at the Prinzregententheate
159. The Nutcracker - Bavarian State Ballet
160. Wintercircus - Utrecht

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