On Mar 23, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Charlie Bell wrote:
On Mar 24, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Dave Land wrote:From the official web site, some outrageous hype: Jeff Wayne's musical adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel /The War Of The Worlds/ is the best known and best selling musical work of all time.s/"musical work"/"musical adaptation of sf novel" :)
Hubris can be such a beautiful thing from a certain angle.
Of course, that's until the music hall revue style Startide Rising, featuring the classic numbers "Swimming in a metal sea", "Sometimes it seems like the whole universe is out to get us" and "My what big teeth you have (for a dolphin)".
Yeah, but whose idea was it to cast Bruce Willis as Creideiki and Jim Carey as Charles Dart? Kind of ruined it for me. You have to admit that Danny DeVito was a surprise hit as Takkata-Jim.
*humming Eve of the War*
I'm listening to the whole thing now. Amazing how well it holds up after almost 20 years.
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