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Audio recordings from the 1968 Uni Revue – Casinova

johnd — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:02:59 +0000

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:

Uni Revue held up as an entertainment standard (?)

johnd — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:20:29 +0000

I find this funny, and relevant to Old Nick in a strange way. How many times in this ABC forum is the Uni Revue held up as an example of how the Theatre Royal doesn’t

Stange days indeed...

exercise discrimination based on taste.

This one is interesting:

“I have personally seen Uni Revue perfrmances at the Theatre Royal with male and female nudily including simulated sex so it seems more prudish than discriminatory to me.” (sic)

We’re naughty.

Pat Harrison

johnd — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:58:34 +0000

I thought some people might be interested in this comment left on the site from a friend of Pat Harrison (Old Nick’s only Gold Life Member) in the Phillipines:

I’ve been a great fan of your theatre group since late 1990’s. I am a good of Patrick Harrison from Philippines (theatre expiriences bind us to be best friends).
I’ll send you some pictures of him being a guest speaker in our theater group later.

I was told so much stories about Old Nick Uni review by him that encourage me to follow the group activities then.

I am a theatre actor/director here in the philippines
I hope i could see some of your done production even as a sneak preview on your web site.

hope to see more theatre actions by Old Nick in the future.

thank you very much,
bongsurio(philippines)

I’ve asked Bongsurio to send the photos though to me, and I’ll post them here.

If anyone has some pictures of Pat I would appreciate it if you could send them to me to add them to the site.

Way back when….

johnd — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:05:49 +0000

Just out of interest I thought I would see how the Old Nick website has changed over time. Fortunately, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine is a help. Click here to see the results.

(Note that not everything on the old sites will work.)

How old is Old Nick?

johnd — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:24:57 +0000

Apparently it’s older than we thought….