Across town at the Noel Coward Theatre, Mr. Radcliffe makes a startling entrance as the bright-eyed yet broken-bodied "cripple Billy" who gives Martin McDonagh's 1997 play its title.
It's a real record, with vocal performances that are intended as legitimate, and when it succeeds (the breezy "Silver Bells," the surging "The First Noel," the stark "O Little Town of Bethlehem") it's an impressive project, a trip through one corner of the American songbook that is as eclectic, strange, and compelling as any episode of "Theme Time Radio Hour".
He also designed a bronze statue of World War I soldier Noel Chavasse VC for Liverpool town centre.
That was followed, in 2005, by a Town and Country story on the Noel family's tropical retreat in Mustique.
And it can't solely be down to the fact Noel is consistently the sharpest, most entertaining interview in town.
Once we reach town we turn the driving over to Noel of Wine, Art & Wilderness for a half-day tour of what makes his city special.
My mother's favorite was 'O Little Town of Bethlehem.' All the kids liked 'The First Noel' because you get those high notes at the end.
The adjoining town houses each had American flags on poles, and Christmas decorations: little sparkling stars, wooden signs saying "Joy* * and "Noel".
"The first visits were incredible," said Mr. Noel who grew up in affluent Fairfield County, Conn., a world away from a small southern town.
His missus answered the door and I said, 'We're Noasis – is Noel in?' He was like, 'What do you want?' I told him about us and that we were playing in town, and he wasn't bothered". .
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