Doctor Whose Line Is It Anyway

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From the Guardian:

Doctor Who is soon
set to step out of his Tardis and onto a theatre stage near you.

The
Doctor – plus assorted adversaries and creatures including Daleks,
Cybermen and Oods – is to tour the UK this autumn with Doctor Who Live. …

The
new Doctor, Matt Smith, and assistant Karen Gillan, will not appear in
the stage show, which is being developed by Doctor Who’s head writer
Steven Moffat and will feature in “on-stage battles, pyrotechnics and
special effects”.

The show, produced by the BBC‘s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, will open in wartime
London and conclude with “an epic onstage battle”. There will also be a
live soundtrack, performed by a 16-piece orchestra, by Doctor Who
composer Murray Gold, responsible for the programme’s controversial new theme tune.

The
television and music industries have discovered a lucrative new revenue
stream through live performances, with ticket sales and merchandising.

Moffatt,
who is also the executive producer of the TV series, said: “This is
everything I ever wanted since I was eleven. A live show, with all the
coolest Doctor Who monsters, a proper story, and brand new screen
material for Matt Smith’s Doctor. I’ll be writing scenes for it, and
probably attending every single night.”

The tour will cover nine
cities with 25 performances, opening at London’s Wembley Arena on 8
October, and then Sheffield, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester,
Nottingham, Cardiff, Liverpool and Belfast on 7 November.

I think we can safely say this will never be coming to America, although I bet if they did a special one or two-night performance in New York they could sell both of ’em out. Surely there are enough rapid rabid Doctor Who fans in America that they’d travel to NYC for a night for this thing. My question is this — I didn’t really think Smith and Gillan would do the stage show, but if not them, who will? Moreover, will they be playing the current Doctor? Or a different Doctor? Will they be made to look like the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond? Seems like with a Doctor Who stage show, you could actually do any incarnation  — even have multiple Doctors gang up on Daleks and shit. Just a thought. Thanks to Grace M. for the tip.