Nope! It's night here so if no one gets it while I'm sleeping I'll do a grand reveal on the morrow.
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Nope! It's night here so if no one gets it while I'm sleeping I'll do a grand reveal on the morrow.
Nope sorry! Before that. It's very tricky indeed.
Nope! It's towards the end if that helps, and for practical reasons it's a highly interpretive version of the same moment in the film.
Nope! It's a very difficult one to get as it's a very brief interaction in the film.
Nope! Good guess though.
Best guesses only as to what they are acting out here. #TheForceAwakens #TFALive
Ah amazing! I love the Canadian rep - I'll have to check out more of their stuff.
I didn't know her at all before watching the stream but she did a great job!
I also find it beautiful that they depict Hux and Snoke like this (for the uninitiated, Snoke is shown as Dr Zaius from the 60s Planet of the Apes).
Aww that's a shame! Maybe you could look out for return tickets? We need some Reylos there in support haha.
Also they announce a live show for The Last Jedi at the end of the stream:
photo of David Dastmalchian (Kylo Ren) taking a selfie with Vic Michaelis (Rey) who is doing a peace sign with her tongue sticking out
went to their site to see if they announced anything about a TLJ reading and I just think this photo is so They lmao
That feels like a more in-character depiction of the Rey/Kylo Ren dynamic than anything we get in the books.
I've only watched the Reylo scenes so far but they're all good! There's no laughing at the material - just laughing with it and having fun with some of the innuendo.
I'm so excited to see them do the shirtless scene from TLJ 😂
David Dastmalchian makes for a gloriously emo/petulant Kylo Ren in the All-Star Live Reading of The Force Awakens. And I'm choosing to take this interpretation of the interrogation scene as a win for the Reylos.
Had a very enjoyable evening watching BIRD GROVE. The play is about George Elliott and is largely middling, albeit somewhat elevated by a nuanced exploration of her faith crisis. But the real star of the show is Elizabeth Dulau, who excels and mines deep emotion for the part. She's note perfect.
They need to keep that title.
You can contact the archive and book an appointment to see the collection for yourself here: vam.libanswers.com/archives
The collection is fascinating and completely free to access (though you have to book!) and I can’t recommend going along enough - I feel very lucky and privileged to have handled all of this with my own hands!
The only song without handwritten lyrics is ‘Chilly Down’, though there are various storyboards and correspondence relating to that particular song in the archive. It was clearly one of the harder nuts to crack, given the technical complexity of the Fire Gang scene.
There are also handwritten lyric sheets for ‘As the World Falls Down’ and ‘Magic Dance’ (on the same sheet), ‘Within You’ and ‘Underground’. These lyrics are mostly very similar or identical to the versions included in the film, though ‘Magic Dance’ has some interesting annotations on delivery.
It’s highly repetitive and feels like an up-tempo dance track (thus why I think it’s an early attempt at the main credits theme).’Underground’ is vastly superior from a lyrical perspective, so it’s easy to see why this draft was ditched.
‘Crystal Heartbeat’ (23 lines) is simpler and less lyrically complex, and has a similar theme of being lost in the confusion of adolescence to ‘Underground’.
It’s filled with Jareth’s overwrought declarations of love (his love is bigger than the sun that shines!) and invites Sarah to join him in a world of pretend. ATWFD is definitely better from a lyrical perspective, and certainly more nuanced, but 'All in All' isn't half bad.
‘All in All’ seems well-aligned with the more didactic early drafts of the ‘Labyrinth’ script, which was written by Terry Jones to present Jareth as a more straightforwardly manipulative trickster hiding beneath a façade of physical beauty.
Like ATWFD, ‘All in All’ (27 lines) is a love song with a woozy feel - it’s bombastic and filled with grand romantic gestures, and literally quotes the phrase “in the heat of the morning” (the title and refrain of an early Bowie song). IMHO, it’s easily the superior of the two ‘new’ songs.
I enclose ‘new’ with quotation marks very deliberately because I have the impression that these are both draft lyrics for what would become ‘As the World Falls Down’ (‘All in All’) and ‘Underground’ (‘Crystal Heartbeat’). This is an educated guess on my part.
