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Star Wars Trilogy MIT Musical

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.

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  1. From the fine article by nizo · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Star Wars" with tap-dancing Storm Troopers!

    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!

  2. * puff of smoke * by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That was R2D2's Gaydar going up in flames

  3. That's easy! by ZeroExistenZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully someone has the decentsy to stealth a digital camera in

    $sys$Camera

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  4. Elton John....??? by ltwally · · Score: 2, Funny
    "...the music credits list Elton John and Andrew Loyd Webber along side John Williams..."
    Ok, I can see Andrew Lloyd Webber... he's a well known theatre guy with plenty of musicals under his belt. But... Elton John? What, is he going to sing Rocket Man during space scenes or something?
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    1. Re:Elton John....??? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Funny

      What, is he going to sing Rocket Man during space scenes or something?

      Don't be silly. He's planning to sing, "The Circle of Force" (...and it moves us aaaaaalllllll). :-P

  5. Whoa! by fizban · · Score: 4, Funny

    decentsy

    Worst. Speller. Ever.

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  6. Blurb quality by dbolger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hopefully someone has the decentsy to stealth a digital camera in.

    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.

  7. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  8. Obligatory Simpsons... by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 3, Funny
    [Sung to the tune of "Luck be a Lady Tonight" from Guys and Dolls]

    Luke be a Jedi, to-night!

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  9. MIT?! by richdun · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Star Wars musical and a study on tin foil hats. Why do I keep seeing a major technological university jumping a shark in my head?

  10. Shouldn't You (MIT) Kids Be in Class? by nekoniku · · Score: 4, Funny

    First the Foil Hat Study and now this. Sheesh!

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    1. Re:Shouldn't You (MIT) Kids Be in Class? by dr_dank · · Score: 3, Funny

      No kidding, between this and seeing all the tremendously elaborate pranks in NightWork, I'm starting to think that the greatest prank that MIT ever pulled was convincing the world that they have actual classes going on.

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  11. Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. by geeber · · Score: 2, Funny

    What you may fail to realize is that "decentsy" is comes from the old English phrase "docent-sty" which neans, roughly, "the pain of being taught a lesson." So I believe Taco was actually advocating against taking a camera into the play.

    Either that, or he is just a crappy speller with a poor sense of humor.

  12. Re:Slashdot Medley by dr_dank · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hit it maestro!

    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!

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  13. News for Nerds indeed... by joetheappleguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    This "event" has the destructive potential of 10 Megdorks. (The first GenCon had an effect of 8.5 Megadorks) - Only a Linucon or a Furvert convention is deadlier.

    Both girls tentatively scheduled to attend refused comment.

  14. its the MITichlorians in the water, dangit! by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    MITichlorians are everywhere these days

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  15. oof! by jm007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "... tap-dancing stormtroopers, singing Ewoks, etc."

    Forget about Han or Greedo, it will be the audience that shoots first.

  16. ...Working Lightsabers by Tikicult · · Score: 1, Funny

    Did you guys catch this line?

    "Ciborowski, who wields a working light saber, is most enthusiastic about the choreographed fight scenes. "They rock!" he said. A veteran performer of three dozen musicals over the past 10 years, he described "SWT: ME" as "the funniest show I have ever been in."

    They develop WORKING lightsabers at MIT and the only use that they could come up with was a musical. sheesh.