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Jan 7, 2010 6:46:10 PM Archived Entry: "Live performances, 2010"
Last year was a watershed in terms of how many shows I saw (116, many of which I didn't enjoy), and this year I'm determined to see less.
1. Into the Hoods - Queen Elizabeth Hall
2. The Little Dog Laughed - The Garrick
3. EGBDF - National Theatre
4. Silence: The Musical - Above the Stag Theater
5. Rakes Progress - Royal Opera House
February
6. 11 and 12 - Barbican
7. Life in Three Acts - Soho Theatre
8. God's Garden - Linbury Theater
9. Nuevo Ballet Español’s “Cambio de Tercio” - Sadler’s Wells
10. Megan Mullally – Vaudeville Theatre
11. Disconnect – Royal Court (Jerwood Theatre Upstairs)
12. Eva Yerbabuena, "Lluvia" – Sadler’s Wells
13. As One, Rushes, Infra – Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House
14. Lost Soul Music (The Devil You Know) – White Rose Theatre at the Pleasance
15. Maria Pagés and Company – 2010 Sadler’s Wells Flamenco Festival
16. Gala Flamenca (Molina, Galván, Liñán, López) – 2010 Salder’s Wells Flamenco Festival
March
17. London Assurance - National Theater (London)
18. Legally Blonde – The Savoy Theatre
19. Dunsinane – Royal Shakespeare Company at Hampstead Theatre
20. Henry V – Southwark Playhouse
21. Measure for Measure – Almeida Theatre
22. Blaze – Peacock Theatre
23. Macbeth – Cheek by Jowl productions at The Barbican
24. Homage to Nureyev – various dancers at the London Coliseum
25. White Guard - National Theatre (London)
26. MacMillan Triple Bill (Concerto, Judas Tree, Elite Syncopations) – Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House
27. La Fille Mal Gardee – Royal Ballet
28. Cloud Dance Festival, Night Two - Pleasance Theatre
29. Cole Porter’s “Paris” – Lost Musicals, Sadlers Wells
30. Ballet Russes Encounters - Peacock Theater
31. Swan Lake - Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Lndon Coliseum
32. Spring Storm - National Theatre
April
33. Maurice - Above the Stag Theater
34. Pirates of Penzance - Wilton's Music Hall
35. Cinderella - Royal Ballet (Royal Opera House)
36. Magia de la Danza - Ballet Nacional de Cuba (ENO)
37. Hair - Gielgud
38. Posh - Royal Court
39. Last Five Years - Barbican (Guildhall Music School)
40. Women Beware Women - National Theatre
May
41. Xanadu - Bob Carr Center, Orlando
42-46. Various performances for the Lufthansa Festival of the Baroque
47. Royal Ballet Mixed Rep (Electric Counterpoint/New Scarlett/Carmen) - Royal Opera House
48. Ingredient X- Jerwood Theater
49. Paradise Found - Menier Chocolate Factor (DOG!)
50. Salome - Richmond Theater
51. Rambert Dance Company (something and Curva Linhea) - Sadler's Wells
June
52. Royal Ballet Mixed Rep (Chroma/Tryst/Symphony in C) - Royal Opera House
53. Shochiku Kabuki’s “Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees” – Sadler’s Wells
54. Joe Turner - Young Vic
55. The Mousetrap -
56. Michael Clark Company "come been gone" - Barbican
57. All My Sons - Apollo Theater
58. Dream of the Dog - Trafalgar Studios
59. Dangerous - Above the Stag
60. Day Before Spring - Lost Musicals, Sadler's Wells
61. Calamity Jane - Gatehouse Theater
July
61. One to One Festival - Battersea Arts Festival
62. Swan Lake - Mikhailovsky at London Coliseum
63. Hofesh Shechter, Political Mother - Sadler's Wells
64. Cipollino - Mikhailovsky at London Coliseum
65. Triple Bill (including Halte de Cavalerie) - Mikhailovsky at London Coliseum
66. Duchess of Malfi - ENO and Punchdrunk
67. Laurencia - Mikhailovsky at London Coliseum
68. Phillip Glass' Dracula - Kronos Quartet at Hackney Empire
69. Concert - Munich, Germany
70. Concert - Munich, Germany
71. Bach and Friends - Concert, Munich, Germany
72. Giselle - Bolshoi at Royal Opera House
73. Premieres - Carlos Acosta at London Coliseum
74. Blink Twice - Above the Stag
75. Russian Seasons, Petrushka, Paquita pas de deux - Bolshoi at the Royal Opera House
76. Spartacus - Bolshoi at the Royal Opera House
August
77. Earthquakes in London - National Theater
78. Le Corsaire - Bolshoi at the Royal Opera House
79. A Rat's Tale - Marine Theatre (Lyme Regis)
80. Cirque Invisible - Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank Center)
81. Great Game Part 3 - Tricycle Theater
82. Deathtrap - Noel Coward Theater
84 (as two 61s above): Great Game Part 2 - Tricycle Theater (stayed for all this time)
85. Clybourne Park - Royal Court
September
86. Accomplice! - Menier Chocolate Factory
87. Pieces of Vincent - Arcola Theater
88. Passion - Donmar Warehouse
89. Darling of the Day - Lost Musicals at the National Portrait Gallery
90. Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - ChopEniana, The Dying Swan, Patterns in Space, La Vivandiere, Raymonda's Wedding - Peacock Theater
91. Icebreaker, "Brian Eno's Apollo" - Queen Elizabeth Hall
92. Alvin Ailey - (program 2) - Sadler's Wells
93. Fantastic Mr Fox - Little Angel Puppet Theater
94. Alvin Ailey - (program 1) - Sadler's Wells
95. Faust (Gounod) - English National Opera, London Coliseum
96. Pleasure's Progress - Linbury Studio
97. Drowsy Chaperone - Upstairs at the Gatehouse
98. Or You Could Kiss Me - National Theater
99. Bells Are Ringing - Union Theatre
October
100. New York City Ballet mixed rep (Serenade, ??, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet) - Koch Theater
101. New York City Ballet mixed rep (Chaconne, Monumentum pro Gesualdo, Movements for Piano and Orchestra, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, The Magic Flute) - Koch Theater
102. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Jacobs Theater NYC
103. A Life in the Theater - Schoenfeld Theater NYC
104. New York City Ballet Fall Gala (I'm Old Fashioned, ?, Tarantella, Western Symphony) - Koch Theater
105. Scottsboro Boys - Lyceum Theater (New York City)
106. New York City Ballet mixed rep (Barber Violin Concerto, Glass Pieces, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet) - Koch Theater
107. Time Stands Still - Cort Theater
108. Romeo and Juliet - Birmingham Royal Ballet at Sadler's Wells
109. Pointes of View - Birmingham Royal Ballet at Sadler's Wells
110. Monteverdi's Vespers - Ex Cathedra at Cadogan Hall
111. Men Should Weep - National Theatre
112. Mixed Rep: La Valse / Invitus Invitam / Winter Dreams / Theme and Variations - Royal Ballet
113. Me and Juliet - Finborough Theater
114. Nearly Ninety - Merce Cunningham Dance - Barbican Theater
115. Contractions - Theatre Delicatessan
November
116. Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers - Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
117. Spem et Alium - Armonico Consort, Cadogan Hall
118. Red Head - Red Priest at Hove Town Hall (Brighton Early Music Festival)
119. Fela! - National Theatre
120. Bright Lights, Big City - Hoxton Hall
121. Dracula! - Selladoor at Greenwich Playhouse (left at interval)
122. Shunkin - Complicite at the Barbican
123. La Soiree - Southbank Big Top
124. Firsts (2nd program: Spiltmilk Say Dance, Sugar Beast Circus, That Was the Time I stopped, The man who wasn't there) - Linbury Studio
125. Far - Wayne MacGregor's Random Dance Company - Sadler's Wells
126. Firsts (3rd program) - Linbury Studio
127. Ballet de Rua - Peacock Theatre
128. Showstoppers - King's Head Theatre (West End Whingers edition)
129. Jack & the Beanstalk - Hackney Empire
130. Iolanthe - Union Theatre
December
131. Black Watch - Barbican
132. Nutcracker - Northern Ballet, Leeds Theatre
133. Cinderella - Matthew Bourne at Sadler's Wells
134. Red Riding Hood - Theatre Royal Stratford
135. Anansi - Southwark Playhouse
136. On the Twentieth Century - Union Theatre
137. Christmas Music by Candlelight - Ex Cathedra at St John's Smith Square
138. The Original Nutcracker -
139. Chapelle du Roi at St John's Smith Square
140. Hansel and Gretel - Kneehigh Theatre at Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank Centre)
141. Handel's Christmas Oratorio - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at St John's Smith Square
142. Nutcracker - English National Ballet
143. Dick Whittington and his Cat - Hackney Empire
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