Ima go jump off a fuckin' cliff now. Anyone with me? Just like lemmings...cmon.

If this musical turns out to be as great as that Mad Magazine parody, then I am so there.

Can Empire On Ice be far off?!

If it was just the music proformed by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra then it would be Jawsome.

I cant belive they are having Stormtroopers Kick line and singing wookies, someone tell me its April 1st already.

"The show will play in chronological order, from The Phantom Menace to Return of the Jedi."

So it's cool if I show up after the intermission and leave early?

There's planty of crap with the Star Wars name on it. I'm surprised this is such an upset. Is the franchise seriously considered that reputable or honorable or whatever? It's been a joke for a long time.

@ Weakly

so just Star Wars* then?

*I fefuse to call it "A new hope" as it was Star Wars for my childhood as it will be that until I die

NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

I think Lucas is trying to keep with the statistic that Christmas time has the highest suicide rates, he's just nudging the fence sitters over with this.

Can they just get Lucas to start writing Heroes and consolidate my pain already?

Who doesn't want to see a singing Yoda with impecably timed choreographed dancers with swinging light sabers.

No doubt it'll be gay, but could be the funniest thing since Jake Lloyd.

I have to admit that, while I've defended George Lucas a lot in the past, it is very hard for me to support this.

Though one thing you need to remember is that George Lucas never intended for Star Wars to be completely serious, though almost all fans have come to expect that. Don't get me wrong, I hate musicals, but Star Wars is intended to encompass every genre, not just action or drama. Star Wars is supposed to be a fully functional world, including the goofier aspects. That's why Jar-Jar binks didn't bother me: yes, he's stupid, but there are stupid people in the real world too. Not including stupid things like that makes the story MORE superficial.

The musical is still stupid, but if people put up with the expanded universe, they can put up with this.

People as stupid as Jar Jar don't hang out with Jedi and become Senators.

They live in Gungan trailer parks and smoke space meth.

Racist!

Toxic FTW! :p

"And now it's Springtime, for the Emperor, and the Empire!
Coruscant is happy and gay!"

http://chud.com/articles/articles/17531/1/THERE039S-NO-STAR-WARS-MUSICAL/Page1.html

Hey, something to go along with the Star Wars: Christmas in the Stars record I got when I was a kid.

Whatever comes of this, it'll still be better than the Ewoks animated series.

This reminds me of that South Park episode where Lucas and Spielberg rape Indiana Jones repeatedly. At the end of the show they have George Lucas sodomizing a storm trooper.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, cutting through the rhetoric to sum up exactly what George has been doing to his franchise-and the fans-for years.

@JD: I would assume Empire as well.

And I'm pretty sure "A New Hope" was there before the first movie's opening crawl...

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

it's a JOKE.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b74477_Cue_the_Ewoks___lt_i_gt_Star_Wars_lt__i_gt__Hits_the_Stage.html
(check the strike through on the wookies line - the text doesn't even make any sense without it.)

how you people overreact. it's actually going to be a nice idea. it's just clips from the movies being shown and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing live, in sync. It's NOT a broadway musical, there isn't any singing and dancing.

I can tell some of you are younger and think that Star Wars should be just like the Dark Horse comics, and were never exposed to the silliness that has been present in Star Wars since the beginning.

Yes, there was the Star Wars Christmas in the Stars album that was released about three decades ago, in which R2 and 3PO sing songs, and in which a droid sings "What Do You Get A Wookiee For Christmas? (When He Already Owns A Comb)"

There was, of course, the Star Wars Holiday Special, and I doubt I need to explain to anyone that it was a silly, ridiculous, horrible show in which a coked-out Princess Leia sang a holiday song to the tune of the Star Wars theme, Mark Hamill was wearing altogether too much makeup, and Chewbacca's father watched spaceporn, but it still managed to launch Boba Fett as a character.

There were the Ewoks TV movies, one of which starred Wilford Brimley of "Quaker Oats" and "Diabeetus" fame (OK, so he was pretty cool in The Thing, Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins and a few other movies).

On Sesame Street R2-D2 guested and fell in love with a fire hydrant.

There were Saturday morning cartoons- Droids and Ewoks, which were both several levels of silliness and non-canon activity that is still, to this day, being retconned into Star Wars by geeks desperate to make the stories they DID like fit.

There was the episode of The Muppet Show in which Mark Hamill AND Luke Skywalker (referred to as "cousins") were guests, along with R2-D2, and C-3PO. They all supposedly crash-landed on Earth in search of a kidnapped Chewbacca (who also appeared at the end). They faced off against Gonzo as "Dearth Nadir", and appeared in song-and-dance numbers.

There never anything funny about C-3POs Cereal.

If you didn't think A New Hope had cheeseball moments, you were watching with nerd blinders on. I love Star Wars, but damned if it's supposed to be this serious, grim, "badass" thing so many geeks want it to be. It's Space Opera. It's meant to be this way. Doing a musical doesn't hurt the originals at all.

Even if this were a "musical" with singing and dancing Stormtroopers, it's no sillier than any of the other humorous stuff released under the Star Wars name since 1978.

I think some of you got an 80s Kenner Boba Fett action figure stuck up your butt-- And not the plain one, but the one that allegedly fired a rocket but was taken off the market because some kid shot his eye out. (Not true, of course, but that's what we all thought when we got our glued-in rocket Boba Fett figures, anyway.)

The rancor from Star Wars fans-- Especially younger ones-- is bordering on the melodramatic.