I don't think I can ever see the updated version of The Producers. It wouldn't be right.
One of the most amazing things about that Nickleby was how very gay it all was. I mean, the subtext was very nearly text, particularly in the Nicholas/Smike relationship. And then you have Lane and Dame Edna playing a couple . . .
Gay? I think of it as more . . . incestuous. The relationship between Nicholas and Kate and Smike . . . I dunno, it just creeps me out. A bizarre love triangle. Someone should write a story . . . Hmm. That gives me an idea . . .
I've heard good things about that version as well, but every time I go to Amazon thinking I'm going to buy it I run into the customer reviews that complain about the quality of the DVDs. Do you have any personal experience with that version?
And the relationship is COMPLETELY incestuous. But the way it was played in this version also had lots o' homosexual over/under-tones.
Well, the picture isn't the best, to be sure, but I haven't seen any problem with the functionality of the DVDs themselves, if that's what you mean. It's not cinematically beautiful, at all - it's a film of the play, and the play is very, very well done. Warning: It is forever long. The cool thing is how they use the characters as narrators throughout - it's a brilliant solution to the problem of trying to keep Dicken's writing voice in the stage version. So there's some great acting and rather clever staging that makes me wish I had seen it at the RSC playhouse in London. *sigh*
Yeah, I'm wondering if Angela Carter's "The Magic Toyshop" didn't start out as a riff on Nicholas Nickleby. I wouldn't be too surprised. I'm surprised no one has converted Toyshop into a play.
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Date: 2006-12-11 06:10 am (UTC)(Okay, except The Producers -- it was damned funny but Zero Mostel is still the Max Bialistock of record.)
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Date: 2006-12-11 03:13 pm (UTC)One of the most amazing things about that Nickleby was how very gay it all was. I mean, the subtext was very nearly text, particularly in the Nicholas/Smike relationship. And then you have Lane and Dame Edna playing a couple . . .
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Date: 2006-12-11 04:40 pm (UTC)My daughter, along with fifty-something other seven-to-eighteen year-olds, will be participating in Nicholas Nickleby on stage next year.
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She's in the middle of Macbeth right now.
Gay? I think of it as more . . . incestuous. The relationship between Nicholas and Kate and Smike . . . I dunno, it just creeps me out. A bizarre love triangle. Someone should write a story . . . Hmm. That gives me an idea . . .
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Date: 2006-12-11 04:46 pm (UTC)And the relationship is COMPLETELY incestuous. But the way it was played in this version also had lots o' homosexual over/under-tones.
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Date: 2006-12-11 05:40 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm wondering if Angela Carter's "The Magic Toyshop" didn't start out as a riff on Nicholas Nickleby. I wouldn't be too surprised. I'm surprised no one has converted Toyshop into a play.