Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
As we gear up for the American debut of Star Wars: In Concert this Friday, StarWars.coms Pete Vilmur takes a look back at past Star Wars concert events.
(On that note, Ticketmaster has added just December dates for Omaha and St Louis.)
Also, it’s a trend!
Ticketmaster is now showing a December 11th date for Cincinnati’s U.S. Bank Arena, while the concert’s Facebook is promising more coming up for New Jersey, Long Island, Ottawa and St. Louis.
UPDATE: Ticketmaster has added a date for Omaha on December 8th.
Ticketmaster is now showing a date for Toronto’s Air Canada Centre on Thursday, November 26. (AKA Thanksgiving for those of us on this side of the border, which hopefully means more tickets for the Canadians.) The presale has already started.
(Americans, please remember you need a passport to cross the border now – and getting one can take several months to process – so keep that in mind before buying tickets for this show.)
I’ve updated the original entry a few times with dates for Detroit and Columbus, but I suggest Midwestern fans check Ticketmaster’s Star Wars: In Concert listing and input their zip codes – more shows may show up there today. Tickets for most of the recently added shows went on presale (for American Express card holders) earlier today.
A couple more dates have shown up on the Star Wars: In Concert listing on Ticketmaster. The concert website is listing a few of them, but none later than November 12.
UPDATE: I set my location in Ticketmaster and it’s now showing me two shows set for The Palace of Auburn Hills (outside Detroit) on Saturday, November 28 (3:30 and 8:00pm.) Neither were showing up earlier, but they may just have been added later today. (I can’t believe we rate a Saturday.)
UPDATE 2: And now they’re showing Columbus for December 2!
Will it blend? Saturday Night Live’s Kristen Wiig wore a Darth Vader meets Kiss of the Spider Woman dress to the Emmys. Sorry, Bonnie: I’m pretty sure she full deserves that D. But at least we get blog content out of it.
IMMA LET YOU FINISH. Congratulations, it’s a week-old meme in Star Wars form!
Talkies. If you’re in the mood for some old school audio drama, Star Wars en Direct’s Dany Pépin is starting some aural fan fiction, ‘In the Shadows,’ next month.
Lists of dubious (and not-so-dubious) honors. Luke is #1 on Spike’s list of the top ten white trash heroes of cinema, while Lando is one of io9’s ten most corrupt mayors in science fiction. Uh, thanks? I guess. On an entirely different note, A New Hope tops Paste’s ten most iconic opening scenes. (via)
StarWars.com has a retrospective of the various poster offerings from Disney’s Star Tours (James has some fond memories) and linking a video of the D23 presentation announcing the new one.
Watch out, Jabba! (This, and many more behind-the-scenes shots from the original trilogy, can be found at the Star Wars Rare Vintage Photos group on Facebook.)
