Star Wars: The Live Concert

Concert review from The Movie Snob:

Star Wars: The Live Concert. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra sold out a three-night run of this production, in which the orchestra performed music from all six Star Wars movies, and Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO, provided a narration between the various pieces. It was very entertaining. First of all, they had several guys wearing stormtrooper outfits wandering around the lobby of the concert hall before showtime, and lots of people were getting their pictures taken with them. They also had R2-D2 there, and some woman dressed as someone I didn't recognize. Maybe she was supposed to be Princess Leia in the outfit she wore on the Ewok planet in Return of the Jedi. Anyway, the performance progressed chronologically from "Episode I" through "Episode VI," and they wisely gave shorter shrift to the music from Episodes I and II. Daniels' narration of the rise, fall, and redemption of Anakin Skywalker was quite enjoyable, and he frequently broke the audience up by over-emphasizing the virtues and importance of C-3PO in the saga. Of course, the musical selections from Episodes IV - VI were the real crowd-pleasers, especially the main Star Wars theme, the fanfare from the very end of Episode IV, and best of all Darth Vader's theme, the Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back. The thunderous standing ovation at the evening's end brought the conducter and Daniels back out for an encore -- the music from the legendary cantina scene in Episode IV. It was a lot of fun.