Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War Of The Worlds Live On Stage
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The Journalist - Richard Burton
The Sung Thoughts of The Journalist - Justin Hayward
The Artilleryman - Alexis James (originally David Essex)
The Voice of Humanity - Chris Thompson
Parson Nathaniel - Russell Watson (originally Phil Lynnot)
Beth, the Wife of Parson Nathaniel - Tara Blaise (originally Julie Covington)
Act one: The Coming Of The Martians
01. Intro [00:40]
02. Prequel [03:10]
03. The Eve of The War (Part 1) [04:40]
04. The Eve of The War (Part 2) [04:27]
05. Horsell Common & The Heat Ray [11:41]
06. The Artilleryman & The Fighting Machine [10:51]
07. Forever Autumn [07:39]
08. Thunder Child [05:46]
Act two: The Earth Under The Martians
09. The Red Weed (Part 1) [06:18]
10. The Spirit Of Man [11:29]
11. The Red Weed (Part 2) [05:19]
12. The Artilleryman Returns [01:28]
13. Brave New World [12:14]
14. Dead London (Part 1) [05:30]
15. Dead London (Part 2) [03:06]
16. Epilogue (Part 1) [07:04]
17. Epilogue (Part 2) (NASA) [01:47]
18. Credits [07:00]
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds was a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne and others, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
A live tour, based on the album, took place in the UK and Ireland in April 2006. A 'virtual' Richard Burton (a projected image of a picture of a young Richard Burton with a super-imposed actor's mouth and jaw lip synched to the original Burton recordings) performed as The Journalist, and Justin Hayward as The Sung Thoughts of The Journalist and Chris Thompson as The Voice Of Humanity. Also from the original recording were Chris Spedding playing lead guitar and Herbie Flowers playing bass guitar. Other guest artists who appeared were Alexis James as The Artilleryman, Russell Watson as Parson Nathaniel and Tara Blaise as Beth. Daniel Boys (known from BBC's Any Dream Will Do, is understudy for all the roles, sung by man. A model Fighting Machine featured on stage. Also presented was a short animated 'prequel' to the story in the style of the upcoming feature-length film detailing the Martians' ecological destruction of their own world and their preparations to invade Earth, and including a short remix of "The Red Weed". The show was produced by Damian Collier and Jeff Wayne, who also conducted the 48-piece ULLAdubULLA Strings and 10-piece Black Smoke Band.
The live show toured Australia & New Zealand in 2007, with dates in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane & Auckland. The Australian tour featured Australian Idol runner-up Shannon Noll as Parson Nathaniel, actress Rachael Beck as Beth and Michael Falzon as the Artilleryman, alongside Justin Hayward and Chris Thompson from the original cast. A further UK live tour took place in December 2007 with Justin Hayward, Chris Thompson, Alexis James, John Payne as Parson, and Sinéad Quinn as Beth.
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You're welcome. I didn't post the video if the 2006 run because as much as I love the music in it, the disembodied head of Richard Burton creeps me out so I ripped the soundtrack and posted it. There was a new updated run from 2012-2013 where the costumes were changed, the sound enhanced, really kick-ass video, some cast changes and Liam Neeson now narrates instead of that god-awful head of Richard Burton. I posted that in 264-Digital widescreen MKV in Contemporary Movies, TV etc. If you want a great experience download that one. It's 4.3 GB but it is well worth the download. It's a sequential RAR in 3 parts that combine into 1 automatically. You just have to click on the first rar to open all 3 and put it together. -------------------------------------------------------------------- R