Star Wars Trilogy MIT Musical 212
ArtieLange writes "The MIT Musical Theatre Group will be staging a musical version of the
Star Wars Trilogy (Eps. IV through VI). There will be tap-dancing stormtroopers, singing Ewoks, etc." Apparently tickets are available if you're in the Boston area over the next week. Hopefully someone has the decency to stealth a digital camera in and post torrents before the premiere so it can be just like the features. There's no way it can be the worst Star Wars related thing out there (currently a tie between the Christmas Special and Episode I) even tho the music credits list Elton John and Andrew Loyd Webber along side John Williams.
Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me. (Score:3, Interesting)
First of all, John Williams has to have musical credit if they use ANY of the original Star Wars music, so that shouldn't be surprising. Which is to say, there's a chance that Williams didn't actually work on this piece, specifically.
However, Elton John and Andrew Lloyd Webber doesn't bode well for this production. We're talking the folks who brought us "Circle of Life", from Disney's "The Lion King".
I'm not sure all that feel-good music will work with Storm Troopers, and rebel star systems trying to escape Imperial rule.
Re:Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me. (Score:2)
Unless its the sight and sound of storm troopers tap-dancing to showtunes that is fueling the rebellion.
Nooooooo! Make the stop!!!! DIE DIE DIE!
Re:Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me. (Score:2)
"Springtime for Vader..."
Re:Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me. (Score:2, Informative)
Of course, as an amateur musician, *I* have no problem with musical "borrowing" or referencing. All culture/science/etc. is built on what preceded it.
Re:Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me. (Score:2)
I have no problem with that though. Both are *fantastic* composers IMHO. Williams has done some good work I think. What artist isn't influenced by others? "I stand on the shoulders of giants" and all that...
Re:Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me. (Score:2)
Re:Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me. (Score:2)
I might have to pop on over to see this one. Sounds like a hoot...
Re:Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me. (Score:2)
Re:Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me. (Score:2)
Hey, nothing against either one of them, but the choice seems wrong.
Re:Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me. (Score:5, Interesting)
A New Hope
I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues -- Luke can't go to the academy
I am Your Robot -- Luke cleaning R2
My father's gun -- Luke gets a lightsaber
Honkey Cat -- Luke and Obi Wan enter Mos Eisley Cantina
Madman Across the Water -- Millenium Falcon escape from Tatooine
Bad Side of the Moon -- "That's not a moon, it's a space station!"
Sacrifice -- Obi Wan fights Vader on the Death Star
Burn down the mission -- Preparing to attack the Death Star
Take me to the Pilot -- Dogfights preceeding Death Star attack
The Bitch is Back -- Han Solo saves the day
Empire Strikes Back
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me -- Luke, Stranded
Someone Saved my Life Tonight -- Han saves Luke
I'm Still Standing -- Tauntaun dies
Love Lies Bleeding -- Scruffy Nerf Herder
Saturday Night's Allright -- Hoth Battle
Rocket Man -- Boba Fett
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road -- Luke leaves Dagobah
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word -- Lando hands them over to Vader
Return of the Jedi
Tiny Dancer -- Jabba's palace entertainment
Someone Saved my Life Tonight -- Leia releases Han Solo
Rocket Man -- Boba Fett gets eaten
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road -- Yoda dies
Burn down the mission -- Preparing to attack the Death Star (again)
Bennie and the Jets -- Ewoks preparing their catch for dinner
Son of your Father -- Emperor tries to turn Luke
Shoot Down the Moon -- That thing's operational!
The Bitch is Back -- Lando vs. the Deathstar
Candle in the Wind -- Unmasked Vader (sorry, I had to...)
eh.. that's all I can come up with, nothing he put out in the 90's is worth playing.. Clearly there's some more scenes that need representation, perhaps "I don't want to go on with you like that" could go with the scene where Luke argues with Vader on CLoud City.. no.. nevermind, I'm done now!
Elton John (Score:2)
I'm sorry, I stopped reading your comment after I got to that bit.
Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal... (Score:3, Insightful)
Being a subscriber, I sent an email to daddypants to try to get this corrected, but since I was ignored, I will deem it fine for me to rip.
Why on earth would someone need 'decency' to do something illegal like that? Why would you encourage your audience to commit crimes for your bemusment?
Instead, how about we say "Lets all hope they sell it in a video format for a cheap price or even free?" Maybe that will encourage them to share their play instead of us ripping it from them illegally?
And you wonder why the MPAA is all over torrents... this isn't helping.
Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. (Score:2)
Fully agreed.
Especially being, as you note, MIT has a tendancy of making their stuff freely available in their time.
Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. (Score:2)
Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. (Score:3, Funny)
Either that, or he is just a crappy speller with a poor sense of humor.
Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. (Score:5, Insightful)
Come on it was clearly a joke.
Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. (Score:2, Troll)
Those of us (and judging from his post, I suspect this includes CmdrTaco), who do not subscribe to your religion have less ideological views of right and wrong with respect to so called Intellectual Property. I won't try to explain it to you, that would be like trying to explain to Pat Robertson why there's nothing wrong with swear words and why it's okay for two people to live together outside of marriage. But su
Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. (Score:2)
I'm all for IP to be free, however, at this day and age, it is a crime. Encouraging your large audience to commit a crime isn't the answer. Encouraging your audience to write to your state lawmakers to change the laws is.
Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. (Score:2)
Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. (Score:2)
Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. (Score:2)
I should imagine they're working from a script, rather than doing an improv.
Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. (Score:2)
From the fine article (Score:5, Funny)
This is just so wrong on so many levels. Then again now that I think about it, maybe adding tap dancing storm troopers to episode one would have improved it. My childhood destroyed you have!
Re:From the fine article (Score:2)
Those would be tied for second-worst. A distant second, at that.
The Christmas special amused small children and built anticipation for the next "real" Star Wars product. Episode I had the fight with Darth Maul. While neither had many other redeeming qualities, they at least had that much going for them.
"Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" was not only the worst Star W
Gimme that Star Wars Religion (Score:2)
Oh please. Yes, it was ineptly made. But it doesn't even rate in the top (or should I say bottom?) 100 Bad Movies of All Time. I mean there's Billy the Kid Meets Dracula, Hercules in New York, everything by Russ Meyer [rmfilms.com], everything starring Chesty Morgan [picpal.com], any movie with singing cowboys...
I guess I have some perspective, because I never though
Re:Gimme that Star Wars Religion (Score:2)
But you really established yourself as an adversary when you chose to disrespect the singing cowboy movies. For shame!
Attack of the Clones was not "so bad it's good." It went past merely bad, past unintentionally campy, past shockingly and amusingly woeful, and into "please erase my memory of ever having seen it" territory. It was not just poorly made, it was painfully dull at every turn. I got more pleas
Re:Gimme that Star Wars Religion (Score:2)
Re:Gimme that Star Wars Religion (Score:2)
And I stand by that statement. Your attempt to site examples of worse films utterly failed. Russ Meyer!? His movies weren't very good, but I would cheerfully sit through every moment of "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" again before even considering subjecting myself to a second viewing of even the highlights of Clones.
Re:From the fine article (Score:2)
That said, a small-aircraft race was done vastly better in the Japanese anime series "Last Exile." I believe the race in question appears around episode 5 or so, and is every bit the spectacle that Lucas wishes he made when he filmed the pod race.
Re:From the fine article (Score:2)
I'll have to play that song while watching EPII to see if it works well...
It's even worse that that (Score:2)
Monty
Re:From the fine article (Score:2)
see, I had my glasses off for a second and I read that as...
well, nevermind
Re:From the fine article... (Score:2)
camera? (Score:5, Insightful)
Hopefully someone has the decentsy to stealth a digital camera in and post torrents before the premiere so it can be just like the features.
How would this constitute 'decency'?
* puff of smoke * (Score:5, Funny)
Re:* puff of smoke * (Score:2)
You go around picking on little robots, too chickenshit to attack someone your own size.
Yeah, buddy I'm talking to you! Pick on some of the androids, or cyborgs or whatever else cracks your rocks. But leave the little guys alone.
R2D2 doesn't need a gaydar anyway. C3PO is the gay one.
Re:* puff of smoke * (Score:2)
Which means R2D2's gaydar is always in tip-top shape, since there's a calibration tool always nearby.
Have you seen R2 fight? (Score:2)
That's easy! (Score:5, Funny)
Hopefully someone has the decentsy to stealth a digital camera in
$sys$Camera
Re:That's easy! (Score:2)
Elton John....??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Elton John....??? (Score:3, Funny)
Don't be silly. He's planning to sing, "The Circle of Force" (...and it moves us aaaaaalllllll).
Re:Elton John....??? (Score:2)
It could be worse. William Shatner was originally considered for that role.
Re:Elton John....??? (Score:2)
Slashdot: The Musical (Score:5)
Then again, a lot of musicals are targetting more "geekish" plays such as "The Last Starfighter", so maybe it's just a cooincidence. Then again...
When do get to go see Slashdot: The Musical? Make sure there are plenty of trolls attacking insightful posters, guys with horns and flamethrowers, and let's not forget the ever important stage plateaus of being modded up!
Re:Slashdot: The Musical (Score:2)
Re:Slashdot Medley (Score:5, Funny)
Dupe dupity, dupe dupity, dupe dupe, dupe-e
This slashdot story is familar to me!
[tempo change]
I've got a wish thats bona fide
I want Natalie Portman petrafied
Petrafied and covered in hot grits!
Grits grits grits
from her elbows to her tits
Grits grits grits
I swear to God, you insensitive clod
I'm begging on my knees for a Beowulf cluster of these
HOT GRITS!
[tempo change]
In Soviet Russia....
[grandiose piano]
In Soviet Russia...
[grandiose piano]
Yakov says its opposite
I don't understand it
In Soviet Russia
MUSICAL...
SINGS...
YOU!
Cha cha ha!
Re:Slashdot Medley (Score:2)
"Why, you must be new here!"
Star Wars: The Opera (Score:2)
Whoa! (Score:5, Funny)
Worst. Speller. Ever.
Re:Whoa! (Score:2)
Re:Whoa! (Score:2)
The MIT Musical Theatre Group will be staging a musical version of the Star Wars Trilogy (Eps. IV through VI). There will be tap-dancing stormtroopers, singing Ewoks, etc." Apparently tickets are available if you're in the Boston area over the next week. Hopefully someone has the decency to stealth a digital camera in and post torrents before the premiere so it can be just like the feat
Re:Whoa! (Score:2)
Blurb quality (Score:3, Funny)
You know, that blurb is of such high quality, I'm just surprised it doesn't have a distorted aspect ratio and random numbers scrolling across the top.
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Disturbing... (Score:2)
Obligatory Simpsons... (Score:4, Funny)
Luke be a Jedi, to-night!
Re:Obligatory Simpsons... (Score:2)
Oh, so disturbance in the Force
I feel a disturbance...and thousands of screams...and gay! er..silence.
And I pity any Jedi who isn't alive today...
He's always late for the Council
But his force choke is real;
He's always late for everything
Except for every kill...
How do you solve a problem like Darth Vader?
How do you hold a tractor beam in your hand?
I am the very model of a modern protocol droid,
I've information technical, political, and linguical,
I know the Dark Lords of the S
I went to this last year (or was it before?...) (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I went to this last year (or was it before?...) (Score:2)
Maybe Taco will have the decency (Score:2)
C3P0 in Tights? (Score:2)
However, all it will take is one bass solo from Darth and I'll throw away all my misgivings.
Re:C3P0 in Tights? (Score:2)
"Springtime for Sith Lords and Vader, the Empire is happy and gay!"
Anyone want to complete the filk?
Re:C3P0 in Tights? (Score:2)
I was born on Geonosis, that's why they call me Cody!
MIT?! (Score:5, Funny)
Shouldn't You (MIT) Kids Be in Class? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shouldn't You (MIT) Kids Be in Class? (Score:4, Funny)
How little will it include? (Score:2)
Re:How little will it include? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:How little will it include? (Score:2)
a few years ago: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V123/N1/star_wars.1a.html [mit.edu]
Old website with video from an earlier version (Score:2, Interesting)
There was a website a few years ago from a group of students who did a musical version of the original Star Wars in high school. They had online video and audio clips and it looked pretty funny/good. It was also based on rewriting the lyrics for songs from existing musicals (e.g. Andrew Lloyd Weber, etc).
It was performed May 24 and 25 (in 1996) at the Palos Verdes Peninsula High School Performing Arts Center in Rolling Hills, California. Book and Lyrics by Kevin Bayuk, Garrin Hajeian, and John Zuckerma
MOD PARENT UP (Score:2)
I think using the song tunes and changing the lyrics might fall under parody laws, so they didnt have to pay royalties. Who knows, maybe one of the kids who helped write that musical simply brought it with him to college and they're performing the same show.
Re:Old website with video from an earlier version (Score:2)
News for Nerds indeed... (Score:5, Funny)
Both girls tentatively scheduled to attend refused comment.
Re:News for Nerds indeed... (Score:2)
You haven't looked around recently have you? MIT is half women, just as nerdy as the men... Our audiences for SWME last time were pretty much half and half and the cast/crew is more than half women.
I know, I know, now your joke sucks even more. Sorry
Monty
Re:News for Nerds indeed... (Score:2)
Oh, god! Now you're mixing equal parts of dork and antidork. You're just asking for a thermostellar cataclysm!
Re:News for Nerds indeed... (Score:2)
No, nothing tops the sheer dorkage destruction potential of an anime cosplay convention.
And the furvert special interest section of an anime cosplay convention holding a Linux seminar? Instant dork singularity.
Lord Vader will NOT be pleased! (Score:2)
This must be some kind of Rebel plot to besmirch the Empire.
The Death Star III will soon be positioned in the Earth's solar system and it will not be 'set to stun.'
clone source (Score:2)
oof! (Score:5, Funny)
Forget about Han or Greedo, it will be the audience that shoots first.
When I was a lad, "Star Wars" did not mean "Suck" (Score:2)
Pick your poison (Score:2)
Review from the last run (Score:3, Informative)
One thing the Tech review doesn't mention is Darth Vader in heels. (No, not those kinds of heels. But, boy, I was all excited for a minute when the costumer mentioned that detail.)
same people did A New Hope already... it was great (Score:3, Informative)
here's a link to the group that is putting it on: http://web.mit.edu/mtg/www/ [mit.edu]
Re: (Score:2)
For more background on this show... (Score:3, Informative)
This is a travesty! (Score:2)
Download it Free (Score:2)
Note: this is not the MIT play, as the one I link to is only a retelling of A New Hope.
Apparently? (Score:2)
I think he meant "Obviously."
Springtime for who... (Score:2)
Sounds like "Springtime for Hitler" with different costumes. :^)
Really bad projects (Score:2)
Its quite possible, based on this IGN review, [ign.com] that Star Wait [starwait.com] can be added to the list of really bad Star Wars related things.
Re:Question... (Score:2)
Wow...they should devote an entire song about that!
(music)
HAN: I shot first... I'm a bad bad dude.... I shot first.
(other characters in saloon singing back up)
He shot first,shot first... He shot first, shot first...
etc
Greedo shoots first (Score:2)
*NO*. Everyone involved is agreed on that
Monty
(who was the sound engineer for the first two times we did Star Wars Musical Edition. This is actually the third Star Wars musical the troupe is putting on.)
Re:Greedo shoots first (Score:2)
Jeff
(the trumpet)
Re:Greedo shoots first (Score:2)
I need to go crawl under my rock^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hget back to work now.
Monty
its the MITichlorians in the water, dangit! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MIT's on a roll (Score:2)
Don't forget the death ray. Yeah. I remember walking into the MIT campus one day and watching a bunch of students ride unicycles. I was happy that there was someone more eccentric than myself. Then again I was walking from http://www.roboevent.com/ [roboevent.com] so the two sort of cancel each other out.
Re:Star Wars Macbeth. (Score:2)
messin' with them shag eared villains.... man... stay away from those guys