It’s taken me several days to write my review of Star Wars in Concert. Not because the show was not good but because the show was brilliant and it took me this many days to wrap my brain around just how brilliant it really was.
It’s like Christmas when your eight years old. When your eight years old Christmas still rocks. It’s still magical and the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas is still the best month of your entire life – the anticipation and the hype and the glitter and the noise in your head…
Friday Oct 23rd right before the show started I was afraid – afraid I had hyped myself up so much that nothing could live up to the show that was already playing in my head.
And I was wrong. The show that played out before my eyes and in my ears – was a million times better than the one in my head!
I had not hyped it up too much but NOT nearly enough!
The score of Star Wars, for me at least, had always been in the background – to the point of ignoring it to concentrate on the dialogue. Not. Any. More. Watching the scenes, the battles, the epic moments of Star Wars with John William’s score pounding out at you – changes EVERYTHING. The wide-eyed stare, the jaw dropping magic of childhood came rushing back. With every new song my eyes got a bit bigger, my jaw slacked a bit more and I even spent most of the time on the edge of my seat leaning toward the stage.
For a couple of hours my world was only Star Wars and it was brilliant.
