Features in both the Mercury News and CNN.com have noted the success of the newly staged live performance of John Williams' famed Star Wars Score, and George Lucas' approval of the show.
CNN focused on an interview with Lucas by David Daniel in which Lucas replied the stage show wasn't his idea. However, he is reportedly pleased with the results.
The show is built around the series' famed scores from the films, performed by a symphony orchestra and choir, and accompanied by specially edited clips from all six movies, displayed on a mammoth LED screen. In his interview with CNN, Lucas reports that while he's seen other live versions of the shows, the touring show is much more. "It's so much more emotional," said Lucas, "because what they've done is taken the emotional content of the score ... one is obviously the Imperial March, one is obviously romantic ... and then they've cut all the pictures around that from all the movies, so that you get this really wide range of visuals going with the music, and it really is quite powerful when you see the depictions of all of the various Imperial shenanigans that were going on over the Imperial March."
According to Mercury, the show also features a traveling exhibit of costumes, props, artifacts, production artwork and behind-the-scenes videos from the Lucasfilm archives. The items include Williams' original handwritten score for "Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace."
Andrew Daniels, the original actor who played droid C-3PO in all the series films, is the narrator of the show. He told Mercury News that the difficulty was not so much culminating the show, night after night, but tearing down and moving to the next city.
The aim is to illustrate how essential an effective musical score is to a film's success, and Daniels reported just how intricate Williams' score has been.
"I saw quite a chunk of the original movie without music" while doing voice-overs for the first film in 1976, Daniels says. "It really opened my eyes to how absolutely essential music can be to a movie."
The tour began Oct. 9 in Sacramento, CA and concludes in Nashville, TN Dec. 13, 2009.
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