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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Music Choice doesn't seem Right to Me.

[Allen Zadr]

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.

[Anonymous Coward]

The Elton John Star Wars Trilogy:

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!

Re:How little will it include?

[Se7enLC]

How much ground did the first 3 movies really cover? You can condense an awful lot into a few well-worded songs...

Old website with video from an earlier version

[CuriousKangaroo]

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 Zuckerman.

I still have an archived copy of the site, including media files.

Here's the wayback machine link: http://web.archive.org/web/19990218201534/newdream .net/StarWars/.

I'm assuming this new version is unrelated.

Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal.

[FortKnox]

After about 6 edits once it hit the front page, yes, it does hint that it may be a joke (still isn't very clear, imho). The first iterations, though, do not (the sentence was what I originally quoted).