The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play) reception was enthusiastic, critical reception was mixed. Frank Rich in "New York Times" reported dull passages piling up as "dead weight", while John Simon in the "New York Magazine" felt that the work was a "middlebrow enterprise" doing "scant justice" to the novel. In contrast Mel Gussow, again in "The New York Times", noted that ""Nicholas Nickleby" remains true to Dickens – many of the lines are taken directly from the novel, dialogue as well as narration – and to first principles of theater" when describing the RSC's recast production in 1986. Playwright and reviewer Thomas Hischak, writing in retrospect
Rose Hill (actress) tutte". For the Glyndebourne Festival she sang Barbarina in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". In 1948 she sang Lucy in the world premiere of Benjamin Britten's adaptation of "The Beggar's Opera". Hill's career in television and film started with the 1958 film "The Bank Raiders" and ended in 1994 with a guest appearance in "A Touch of Frost". Hill played various roles, including Miss La Creevy, in the Royal Shakespeare Company's play "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" (November 1980) at the Aldwych Theatre, an epic eight-hour stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel "Nicholas Nickleby" with Roger Rees, Emily