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One-Man Star Wars Trilogy Returns to Chicago

Posted by samzenpus on from the does-lucas-know dept.

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."

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  1. One-Man LotR by scowling · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?

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    1. Re:One-Man LotR by Lord+Apolon · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I actually did a one-man show of LotR in my high school before I graduated last year... or rather, of a few vignettes from it, since I only had about 5 minutes to do it in. Never heard of this guy, but mine with its 3 scenes (A Long-Expected Party, The Council of Elrond, The Bridge of Khazad-Dum, culminating in me leaping off the stage) was enough of a hit that I got a standing ovation and was crowned Lord of the High School (Ah, high schools.. how cheesy). The best part was throwing costume after costume on and off, like when I alternated with every line of dialogue between the staff and wizard hat in one hand and the fiery robe and whip in the other... I'll try a full show sometime, I think.

  2. Re: You can even watch it yourself! by Llama_STi · · Score: 3, Interesting


    It's a great video as well: Star Wars Gangsta Rap.

  3. Needs to get the voices down.... by Cajunator · · Score: 1, Interesting
    From the video clip, it looks like he needs to do a better job of imitating the voices.

    Something really impressive is Rick Miller's adaptation of MacBeth using characters from the Simpsons....

    http://www.machomer.com/

  4. Erm... ok, after watching that... by spoco2 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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.

  5. It's Educational(tm)! by BiteMyShinyMetalAss · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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... )