During the Theatre Royal open day, Peter Reardon lent me some audio recordings of two previous Revues – Casinova from 1968 and Unicorn from 1952. Both are on LPs (you know, round black things like CDs, only bigger and … blacker). I’ve started to transfer these to audio files.
Casinova is done, and the results are presented here. The Unicorn disks are in a bit worse shape, and will take longer to do.
To hear the files from Casinova, click the “read the rest of this entry” link.
Don’t expect great quality. The recording has a bit of reverb from the venue. I’ve cleaned up the recordings as much as possible.
The audio files are actually stored as YouTube videos, for various reasons. However, if you would like the MP3 files, email me and I’ll send them to you.
There are eight items, but the last is split into two parts due to YouTube’s restriction of 10 minutes per item.
The first is the opening number and sketch:
The second is a take on Romeo and Juliet:
The third is a send up of a local TV fitness presenter of the time, Sue Becker:
Next is a visit to Tasmania by pop singer Normie Rowe:
This one is a mix of things presented as a TV news magazine program. Very similar to the current Revue’s News segment:
Next is a commentary on TV preachers:
The compulsory psychiatry sketch:
And the last is a two parter on Tasmania’s race into space:
#1 by reardon on December 16th, 2009
Re the preacher sketch: This was a send-up of a fire & brimstone radio preacher from the USA, Garner Ted Armstrong (who became Garner Ted Hamstrung for the sketch) who was on radio every night condemning sinners to eternal damnation. The sketch was written and performed by Charles Wooley, of Sixty Minutes fame and currently – ironically – back on radio.