Last weekend, we attended the Star Wars in Concert. It was amazing. Ryan and I heard about it on the news a couple months ago and thought it looked really cool. I have been so anxious waiting for it to come. I love the music in all the Star Wars movies. John Williams has been one of my favorite composers since I was a young child. He creates the most amazing movie scores. Included in the two hour concert was Star Wars memorabilia around the arena. We arrived an hour and half early so that we would have time to see all the movie props and costumes. I'm glad we went early, it took us a little over an hour just to walk around and look at everything.
As soon as we walked in the arena, we turned the first corner from the door and were greeted by Chewbacca. He was huge. That costume looks extremely hot to film in:
Next, we came across Darth Vader. This actor was extremely tall. I kept waiting to hear deep breathing:
An Imperial Officer:
Blasters from the various movies. They look so real in the movie. Some of them didn't look very heavy in real life. I would've loved to pick some of them up:
The helmet on the far side (with it's back to us) is one of my favorites and the storm trooper one here.
Ryan with a Tusken Raider.
One of C-3P0's costumes. The actor that played him was the narrator for the evening.
Okay, so here was my moment to show my true Star Wars craziness. I think I was more excited about this than Doug or Ryan. We came around a corner and lined up against the wall were several people dressed up as various Storm Troopers, Imperial officers and, one of my favorites, Boba Fett. Ryan and I snuck in to get out picture taken with some of them.
I think they are afraid the force is strong in this young one:
Boba Fett
This R2D2 was so cool. It was sturdier than I thought it would be. Later on, we saw it being led down the hallway by all the storm troopers and Boba Fett - as if he had been captured. It was actually rolling down the hall, like you'd see in the movie, making all it's beeping noises.
Royal Guards. I don't remember the ones in blue. I'm gonna have to watch the first two movies and look for them.
Han Solo frozen:
The real Boba Fett costume:
A piece of the original musical score:
The arena before the show began. So, basically it was a tour performance of excerpts from the musical score. There was a huge screen behind the orchestra. Anthony Daniels (C-3P0) told the story of Anakin through Luke and Leia. He would talk about different pieces of the story and then the orchestra would play while showing clips of all six movies on the giant screen. It was wonderful to listen to that music played live. They had cameras on the orchestra as well. The Star Wars soundtracks depend on the French Horn quite a bit. It was neat to see the cameras showing the French Horns so much. Ryan loved the whole experience and got a chance to listen to a professional play his new instrument. It was an amazing experience.
