A Little Night Music - Opera North (Leeds Playhouse)

Just wondered why there are two different performers listed for each role on the website (except for the principals, where only one performer is listed). It’s not as if one is listed as the understudy; it’s just two performers listed as the same role. Does anyone know why?

Which Saturday? I booked for the 16th May matinee.

I'm there then as well (availability nearer the time of non-banruptcy-inducing train tickets permitting!). Board meet up?

Without wanting this thread to morph into one about either train travel or The Marriage of Figaro, may I please ask, Dawnstar, when you have booked to see the latter? I now have the weekend engineering dates for February.

Well, it's good news then. 8 February isn't one of the dates when King's Cross is fully closed. (I know you aren't travelling from King's Cross, but you can't close a major London terminus without there being disruption elsewhere along the line.)

There is, however, a partial closure of King's Cross on 8, 9, 15, 16 February, with LNER advising "there will be a reduced train service."

Not ideal, but much better than it could have been!

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Sorry Mods, but I'm hijacking the thread again with important train information!

If you still need to book your train tickets, Dawnstar, then they are finally "Due to be released Tuesday 14 January."

Agreed that it is not fair, although for Saturdays they do sell Super Off-Peak Singles for £52.50.

Note the LNER web site lets you set up an "Early Bird Ticket Alert". I have set this up for my trip to see the show on 15th May. There is also an alert set up available at www.thetrainline.com/ticketalert although I have found this to be not always reliable for weekend journeys.

If you can't get your train tickets at a price you're happy with send me a private message and I might be able to suggest a way to get there by train with a slightly longer journey time for a lower cost. 

At the moment Kings Cross to Leeds on 8 February costs from £23.30 out and £17.80 back but unfortunately that train doesn't stop at Stevenage or Peterborough. Hopefully there will be similar prices from/to your local station at suitable times tomorrow. Because weekend advance tickets are often put on sale well after weekday ones the lowest price ones sometimes don't appear at all.

I was assuming the matinee started at 2.30pm but I understand it's actually 4.00pm so my schedule won't work for the return journey. It was Kings Cross - Doncaster depart 9.42, arrive 11.25 £19.50, Doncaster to Leeds depart 12.26 arrive 13.11 £3.80. Total assuming no railcard £23.30. Return was Leeds to Doncaster depart 18.22 arrive 19.07 £3.80, Doncaster - Kings Cross depart 19.28 arrive 21.23 £14.00. Total £17.80. Overall total £41.10. All advance fares.

Sometimes to get the lowest fares you have to avoid the main operator and buy two separate tickets. Neither Hull Trains nor Northern Rail is the most reliable train operating company so using LNER is a much better option if cost permits.

(For a 4.00pm curtain up it works to leave Kings Cross at 10.43 (and that actually costs £4.30 less to Doncaster but unfortunately there's no cheap train back to Kings Cross after the 19.28.)

I mostly use Southeastern Trains to buy tickets as they offer free delivery. The advance fares to Leeds for 8 February are now on their website. If you are on Quidco, Chiltern Railways has the same fares and can save a few more pence but I think they charge a delivery fee. I usually collect from a station anyway.

Only use the National Rail website to get information, then google the train operating company you want to buy your tickets from. It doesn't need to be the company you are travelling with. They all sell the same tickets but they DON'T necessarily all have the same cheapest fares available. I don't know why that is but I've encountered it before. Don't let NRE direct you to LNER !

As you have said the cheap advance fares for 8 February are not currently available on the LNER website. National Rail Enquiries website refers you there. Most people would look there first. You want to travel on their trains. Yet they are only offering much higher fares at present. A textbook example of what a minefield getting rail travel at the best price can be and it really shouldn't be like that.