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Unbenounced to me today is Charles Dickens' 200th birthday -
Happy, happy to you Chuck! Oliver T. is my favorite, but I have to admit the musical, movie version with Mark Lester (where is he now?) is really catchy!
... I’ve always thought it would be fun to do some quick
little skit -- kinda like Saturday Night Live meets Monty Python pairing, where the magician David Copperfield attempts to make Dickens' David
Copperfield disappear... in fact, anytime I hear or see the name David
Copperfield – this is basically what I visualize (sometimes I very it a bit for personal, entertainment reasons, but you'll get the gist).
Scene:
Two vanishing cabinets are set across from each other on
a stage with a long wooden plank stretched out between them.
After the usual pomp and circumstance from the magician David
including a thorough investigation of the cabnets, Dickens' David (wearing a
Daisy tucked behind an ear) is ushered into the first cabinet.
The door is closed, the magician continues to carry
on... while we see (and the magician doesn't) Dickens' David quickly Trot across the wooden
plank -- sneaky like with his arms bent at the elbow (sometimes trotting loudly,
sometimes quietly, sometimes with a balletic bounce, and at times will incorporate that little “shhh” movement with a finger
to his lips, but most of the time it is really quite dramatic...) then,
predictably, he disappears behind the other cabinet.
Finally, with much to-do, the magician David opens the other cabinet
and Dickens' David is just standing there
unimpressed.
(I can't keep the smile off my face...)
Sometimes the cabinet is empty (but that's too impressive and not very silly...)
Every once in while, the Daisy is all that remains inside (which is really sweet, but this only
happens when I hear or come across "Copperfield" at the time when the weather outside
is a bit misty or gray -- like today...)
Once, and I haven’t scene it since – when the cabinet
was opened
all there was inside was a large hand written sign that said
“gone to Australia”
(I mean, is it me?, or didn’t it seem like that was the
IN place to go?!)
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Ha ha ha - just found this...
(of course, where else? -- Australia!)
Who knew about Michael J?... He obviously connected with the story as well. I guess there is the orphan archetype in all of us (however uniquely within each individual's life it plays out. Disney knew this too... I was always wondering why the main characters were either orphans or only had one parent that usually dies - yes? He too, like Dickens, likes fulfilling conclusions.)
