Jeff Wayne`s musical version of the H.G.Wells novel WAR OF THE WORLDS celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and is touring the country, so I booked fantastic seats (5 rows from the front and centre)at the Echo Arena, Liverpool.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Click for a sample!
Jeff Wayne conducted the BLACK SMOKE BAND and the ULLAdubULLA STRINGS in front of a 100ft cinema screen, beneath a gigantic model of the Martian(which seemed to take a distinct liking to the blonde lady sitting in front of us. It zapped her, and thus us, regularly with its heat ray)
There were vocal performances by Justin Hayward, formerly of the Moody Blues,(he was so ultra cool), Liverpool`s own Jennifer Ellison, Shannon Noll, the runner-up of Australian Idol, Alexis James who was a big hit with the audience, and Chris Thompson. Jeff`s daughter Anne-Marie Wayne was on screen as "Carrie", and to complete the cast, a huge 3D hologram of a young Richard Burton, complete with a cleverly super-imposed moving bottom jaw to accomodate his original voice.
A totally brilliant concert, and we even managed to catch a couple of leaves as Justin was singing "Forever Autumn".
2 comments:
I saw this picture before but don't remember the words...or maybe I am going mad at last....(don't reply to that). Anyway, sounds really good, Ali!
Stephen Spielberg directed a film of the story starring Tom Cruise, but it didn`t even begin to compare to the live show that we saw. Thoroughly enjoyed it (and loved being zapped!!)
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