Slashdot Mirror
One-Man Star Wars Trilogy Returns to Chicago
FrostyWheaton writes "The One-Man Star Wars Trilogy has returned to Chicago and is playing at the Apollo Theater through February 14th. I was at this show last time it was in Chicago (old Slashdot story) and it was even better this time around. The Apollo theater is much larger than the previous venue providing four times the seating and stage space elminitating the cramped feeling the show had last year. The show has not changed a great deal, but it is slightly expanded, including a few jabs at the latest Star Wars re-working."
He shoots himself first.
So when is George Lucas releasing the special edition?
...When he sprouts ears, talks in backwards logic, and shrinks about 3 feet, then call me.
Mercy was given to me by Christ...I must give the same to others.
This is not the East or the West Side!
.... another dark Jedi
No it's not.
This is not the North or the South Side!
No it's not.
It's the DARK SIDE.....
THAT IS CORRECT.
What is thy bidding my master?
It's the disaster Skywalker we're after
But if he could be turned to the dark side
Yes, he's be a powerful ally
HE WILL JOIN US OR DIE
we got DEATH STAR, we got DEATH STAR, we got DEATH STAR, and ya know that we got it, DEATH STAR.....
Luke!Get your ass over here!Quit ridin' around in that damn landspeeder! Where are those two droids you were s'pose to clean up? d'joo clean your room?
uncle owen, I know i'm on probation...
I cleaned the droids, may i go to the Tashi Station?
I got a lay away on the power converter,
but now yer treatin' me like a scruffy nerf-herder
LUKE,use the Force and run!
run to Dagoba, run to Dagoba
LUKE, use the Force and run!
run to Dagoba, run to Dagoba
I'm Yooooooooda
I'm a sooooooldier
[something here i can't understand]
i thought i told ya
don't be unwise, judge me not by my size
you won't believe your eyes, watch the x-wing rise....
Yoda, why are ya bein' a playa hata?
you know that i still must confront Lord Vader!
but Luke..not ready are you
but there's a city in the clouds where they're keepin' my crew
A Jedi's gotta do what a Jedi's gotta do
so now Vader, i'm comin' for you
yeah that's right R-2, I just set a new course
we're goin to Cloud City
mmm, that's a mighty good gin and tonic, why don't you mix me up another?
Impressive, now release your anger
owwwww! why'd you slice off my hand?
It's imperitive that you understand. Obi-Wan would never bother, tellin you about your father
He told me enough. He told me you killed him.
there's something that I must reveal then
I'M your FATHER, I'M your FATHER
I'M YOUR FATHER, I'M YOUR FATHER
knock 'im out the box, Luke, knock 'im down
knock 'im out the box, Luke, knock 'im down
KNOCK 'IM OUT THE BOX
LUKE
Star Wars Kid feels admiration.
May he face the full wrath of the force..
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
I hope it's better than C3-PO sitting in the ewok treehouse. It was way short, but he did get the sound effects right on.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
After watching Late Night at the Apollo a few times, I don't think his act will really fit in...
Yes, I know it a different Apollo.
And so what about the 99.9% of us who DONT live in Chicago?
How about Star Trek, Flintstones and a sprinking of Star Wars? Stone Trek (requires flash)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
...of the 15 minute Hamlet. Has anyone had the pleasure of seeing this atrocity?
Mercy was given to me by Christ...I must give the same to others.
His One-Man LotR is brilliant. He performs all three movies in an hour, and by the end of it he's exhausted and dripping wet.
He's a local boy, too, having graduated from the University of Victoria. Frankly, a local boy getting big-time acting attention in the outside world is more newswothy, IMHO, than the fact that he's playing Chicago. He played Vancouver four times the other month. Why wasn't that a front-page headline?
www.kitchengeek.com -- Nosh for
It was perhaps the most incredible live show I have ever seen... my friends and I didn't stop laughing our guts out for the hour and a half (or so) it took him to go through the original trilogy. It's not just the imitations that he does well, he also goes through the motions and to see him hopping and jumping and crashing to the floor... it's quite an experience. Seriously, if this is coming to your home town you should check it out.
501 Not Implemented
...when's the Jar-Jar christmas special?
so if he is his own father, then how did he....
oh, yuck!
This sig contains repetition and redundancy.
And I'm sure the show would be fun... but that web site made my eyes bleed.
In the Return of the Jedi part, does he play Sebastian Shaw or Hayden Christensen?
It is good that it is not played in the Apollo Theater in Harlem (New York)
Otherwise we would have seen Soul Wars
Reminds me of a Get Fuzzy Cartoon (paraphrasing):
Satchel: In a fight between Kenny G. and Michael Bolton, who would win?
Rob: We all would, Satchel, we all would.
He must be a hick. What else would convince him that it's ok to be his own father, brother, and sister?
Xierox
Sounds lot like a great place to meet other geeks, bemoan being virgins and comtemplate partying with the trannies outside after the show. H0t but seks!
It's a great video as well: Star Wars Gangsta Rap.
(blatantly stolen - sung to Inperial Rhapsody)
LANDO: This is the good life, This is a fantasy
Working on Bespin, An escape from Reality.
LEIA: Open your eyes, Stand up to these guys and
see.
LUKE: I'm just a farmboy, I need some sympathy, Cuz who's my dad, I dunno R2-D2, R2-D2,
R2-D2, R2-D2,
R2-D2, Where'd ya go? C-3PO O O O O O OH!
I'm just a farmboy, nobody loves me.
REBELS: He's just a farmboy, with a dead family.
Spare him this life of such mundacity!
HAN: Spice'll come,
spice'll go. Jabba let me go.
JABBA: Bo shuda! (NO, we will not let you go)
HAN: Let me go!
JABBA: Bo shuda! (We will not let you go)
HAN: Let me go!
JABBA: Bo shuda! (We will not let you go)
HAN: LET ME GO!
JABBA: WILL NO LET YOU GO!
HAN: LET ME GO!
JABBA: WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
HAN: LET ME GO!
JABBA: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
C3PO: Oh R2-D2, R2-D2, R2-D2, Come along.
LEIA: C-3PO has a rebel put aside for meeeee, for meeeeee, for
MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
(Stormtroopers start headbanging)
LUKE: So you say you're the dear old dad of mine?
But you cut my hand off and left me to die!
Oh Vader, can't do this to me, Vader.
I know there's some good, I know there's still some good in you.
OBIWAN: May the Force be with you.
Use the Force to see.
May the Force be with you,
May the Force be with you, alwaaaaaaaaaaaaays.
HAN: Anywhere the Force goes, doesn't really mat-ter, to meeeeeeee.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
Holy, cow +10 Flamebait.
Take it here, boys.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Something really impressive is Rick Miller's adaptation of MacBeth using characters from the Simpsons....
http://www.machomer.com/
Fools wasted mod points to troll you on a quote from Half-Baked with Dave Chappell...
...or is there anyone else alive who's bored shitless with the entire Star Wars thing.
I enjoyed it when I was 10 or so when Star Wars was first released, but going back to it now... Yawn.
Just me then...
This guy already has ears, and he used to be like 9 foot tall... want me to call you now?
There's a clip available as well.
Gives an idea of what is going on.
0110100100100000011000010110110100100000011000100
I really hope this guy makes a better actor than he does a Web designer. That could take the cake as the worst Web page I've ever seen. Oh, the humanity of it all...
OK... look, after watching a clip of the show I just have to say... why?
It's seems to be just like watching a kid acting out the movies, complete with 'pichoo, pichoo' gun sounds... what's entertaining about that? He even gets crucial lines wrong ("Shutdown all the garbage smashers on the detention level"? oh come on)
Bah and humbug I say.
Charles Ross shoots Charles Ross FIRST.
>>>>>> Chewie, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
SPOILER....
Vader is luke's father.
Is this similar to the Star Wars Kid?
LMAO, love this guy.
Gee I hope he doesn't play Princess Leia in a bikini! Ewwww!!
"sweet dreams are made of this..."
Sheesuz. His one-man show came through my tiny town of thirty thousand about two weeks ago. Didn't notice any front page stories here on Slashdot. Will we get another front pager when he gets back to New York? Biloxi? Podunk?
--
Don't like it? Respond with words, not karma.
Quit your whining. Slashdot's been a "tabloid for nerds" for years now. At least this is better than yet another racist article bashing China or India.
I my first year Chem lectures, the prof would sometimes try to wake the class up with little videos or flash animations that somewhat pertained to the material at hand.
So, on the projection screen in an auditorium with ~400 sleepy students, out blares "IT'S NOT THE NORTH OR THE SOUTH SIDE!" "NO IT'S NOT!" It was priceless, and the entire class couldn't stop laughing at it until the end of the lecture.
Sadly that, and the fact that David Hasselhoff is popular in Germany, are the only things I remember from that course. (And yes, Hasselhoff was on the exam... )
Ummm... I thought that's what the prequels were.
He makes a cute princes leia!
My karma is getting better everyday.
Well, i'm sure that guy is a slashdot reader.
But very few have discovered the sequel, which is much more risque but probably more hilarious.
Size matters not.
I didn't know this was such a controversial topic, but as I recall, lasers can't even penetrate Star Trek's navigational deflectors. I'm surprised I remember that, but it's probably because I had the same question when I was a kid (and I wanted Star Wars to win). Star Trek's cool too though. ... after some googling ...
Holy cow! They've already covered this in much more detail than I ever imagined possible: http://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWokona.html
The Internet truly is a wonderful thing.
Battle meditation.
Sorry, trekkies, but i'm afraid the good ship Enterprise is helpless against the might of the sith.
They could probably kill off the light siders, but that would only make them more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Addendum: Since when were blaster bolts lasers? They sure don't seem to move at the speed of light to me.
...it's really a sad day for America when we require a goddamn ACT OF CONGRESS to make our DVD players work properly. ~
Seriously, I was expecting something in the range of $40-50 USD with all the hype here, but $19 a ticket?!? Might be worth it to head out to Surrey next year to see him to his one-man LOTR with such cheap ticket prices!
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Someone said 'Ian McKellen was gonna take the DVD to Peter Jackson'
WHAT DVD? I can't find a DVD for either the Star Wars or LOTR on his website.
Too bad I would give this as a gag gift to a star wars nut
I saw both of his performances in Vancouver when they played around the time of the fringe festival.
Both were hilarious, both were very very good. I thought Star Wars was funnier, the movies are such that they can be more easily made fun of. The Lord of the Rings was fantastic, he did the voices and motions VERY well. He had a great Gollum voice and you could easily tell the difference between all the hobbits. My favorite line: as Sauraman "Do you know where the orcs come from? You can read about it in the Silmarillion. Why are you laughing, I bet half of you don't even know what I'm talking about".
He morphs rapidly from one character to the next, he imitates the strange aliens and their shapes (big arms to be Jabba's mouth). He sings all the music, does the credits, everything.
I would really recommend these plays, but if you haven't seen the movies a lot will be lost.
more like - take it here... http://tinyurl.com/6632t/ (googlefight)
OK, I take that back... there you go... he is indeed right... I always thought that was 'shutdown all the garbage compactors on the detention level'
Huh.
I stand very corrected!
Worst case of adult ADHD I've ever seen.