tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668712602334003954.post4278400417588279722..comments2024-01-12T15:32:22.236-08:00Comments on The Episconixonian: Scarcely Less Beautiful In DeclineFr. Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09974142521713230215noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668712602334003954.post-54717725405051996042011-02-17T18:23:39.719-08:002011-02-17T18:23:39.719-08:00Thanks, MK, and thanks for the inspiration to fina...Thanks, MK, and thanks for the inspiration to finally order NN on DVD. <br /><br />As I e-mailed you, I was listening to the cast album today. Whenever I hear "God Rest," I too think of the last scene of the RCS production. I assume Oliver did the orchestration, which at the end subverts the optimism of the carol as Rees stands alone on stage, holding another helpless child. Wow!<br /><br />It's amazing how many people that production resonated with. <br /><br />Thanks again for your reflections (and for the reminder of Dick McNeill's wit).Fr. Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09974142521713230215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668712602334003954.post-91276823136987920132011-02-17T17:19:25.925-08:002011-02-17T17:19:25.925-08:00What a wonderful passage. One I particularly enjo...What a wonderful passage. One I particularly enjoyed reading this month of birthdays, with I just having turned 60 and Mom about to turn 90. <br /><br />Nicholas Nickleby is one of my favorite works by Charles Dickens. I especially like the fact that you pictured Rees and Threlfall. The RSC production, which I never saw on stage but saw on tv in the early 1980s and often have watched since on VHS (gotta update to DVD if I can), is a big favorite of mine. I think of it whenever I hear "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (one of my favorite carols as a result) at Christmas time.<br /><br />Dick McNeill, the A-V supervisory archivist at the NARA Nixon Project, knew I liked the RSC production (I think he had seen it on tv, too). When I came in to work at Pickett Street wearing the corduroy knee-length pants that briefly were in style for women in the 80s, McNeill called me Nicholas Knickerby! <br /><br />How in the world was I a Reagan Republican back then; my 1980s era attire always was avant garde and cutting edge, including wearing blue or black nail polish. I even used to wear the deliberately mismatched earrings you saw in some of the early music videos on MTV, I didn't look the part of what I then thought was a conservative Republican, at all! I've since come to realize I was moderate on most issues and conservative only on a few. Maybe the somewhat non-comformist attire and occasional rebellious streak I displayed during the 1980s were a clue that I would become an Independent by 1990!<br /><br />Thanks again for the lovely post.MKhttp://nixonara.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com