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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.
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.
Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
Hopefully someone has the decentsy to stealth a digital camera in and post torrents.
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.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
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!
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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'?
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
That was R2D2's Gaydar going up in flames
Hopefully someone has the decentsy to stealth a digital camera in
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I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
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Is it just me, or is Slashdot reporting on an increasing number of musicals? Combined with Taco's urging to do something illegal, I have to wonder if the editors are really getting into this stuff.
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!
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decentsy
Worst. Speller. Ever.
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
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.
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Luke be a Jedi, to-night!
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If its not the same thing, it was something similar. It was a lot of fun and I highly recommend attending.
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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?
First the Foil Hat Study and now this. Sheesh!
"It's a wonderful idea. But it doesn't work." -- Tad Danielewski
How much ground did the first 3 movies really cover? You can condense an awful lot into a few well-worded songs...
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.
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.
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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!
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
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.
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Come on it was clearly a joke.
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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).
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
"... tap-dancing stormtroopers, singing Ewoks, etc."
Forget about Han or Greedo, it will be the audience that shoots first.
See also The MIT Tech's review of the 2003 staging of this musical.
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.)
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
they did it a few years ago, and again this past summer at a Star Wars convention. i saw it on MIT campus, and it was amazing. this time they are combining the original three films into a roughly three hour production.
here's a link to the group that is putting it on: http://web.mit.edu/mtg/www/
...visit http://www.starwarsmusicaledition.com/ This group has performed a one-episode version (just A New Hope) both at MIT and at the Celebration III convention this last April.