Orchestral Star Wars spectacle to debut in London

Those of you who like your Star Wars films condensed into a two-hour compilation* and projected large to an 86-piece orchestral backing are in luck - that's exactly what Star Wars: A Musical Journey will offer when it debuts on 10 April next year at London's O2 arena. According to the BBC, the spectacle is a collaboration …

[Eddie Edwards]

This is well harsh

When I saw the headline on the BBC earlier I thought they were doing Star Wars: The Musical. Now that would rock. But instead it's just ... bollocks.

[Chris]

only Jar-Jar?

Hopefully, *most* of Episodes I-III will be left on the cutting room floor. Take the whole flipping "saga" and condense it to 2 hours - about right for the amount of actual plot...

[Anonymous Coward]

AWFUL IDEA - CANCEL THIS PLEASE

Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi - you're my only hope...

[blue face, as I'd like to freeze the person who's idea this was in Carbonite]

[Dave The Cardboard Box]

OMD

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[Anonymous Coward]

WTF, commentards?

How can you say that hearing Williams' score *played with a live orchestra* wouldn't be fucking fantastic?

Freaks.

[Anonymous Coward]

Two hours?

That should be enough to cover the plot of the entire series and still leave 1 hour and 58 minutes to do something interesting.

Paris, because she could do something interesting in two hours.

[TeeCee]

86-piece Orchestra?

Wouldn't it have been easier to just get one whole one?

Don't push, I haven't got my coat ye.......<SLAM>!