Jeff Wayne's The War Of The Worlds - Live On Stage

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Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992: 23 years of hit singles & albums from the top 100 charts. St Ives, N.S.W, Australia: Australian Chart Book. p.430. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds". LiveNation. 1 November 2012. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013 . Retrieved 23 December 2012. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds The New Generation - New Double Album Released By Sony Music". Metro Radio Arena. 12 November 2012. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015 . Retrieved 30 May 2015. Included dates in the UK and the Netherlands. Featured the addition of Carrie's father as a new character and lyrics to "Life Begins Again". A prologue was performed as a pre-show segment with the characters performing among the audience rather than on stage. Featured actor Callum O'Neill who portrayed H.G. Wells in three separate stages of his life.

Alive on Stage! at the O2 Arena was recorded and released across cinemas in the UK and Europe in April 2013. [17] [21] The War of the Worlds team worked with the distribution company More2Screen, a company that brings special events to cinema. [28] [29] The recorded show was well received in a series of platform digital screenings in the UK before it transitioned to home entertainment; it was released on DVD in November 2013. [30] DVD releases of The Final Arena and 40th Anniversary tours are unlikely to ever come to fruition. Shea, Christopher D. (20 March 2016). " 'War of the Worlds' Shape-Shifts Onto the London Stage". The New York Times . Retrieved 21 March 2016. Musical Version Of "The War Of The Worlds" ". RMNZ . Retrieved 25 October 2023. {{ cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= ( help) Musical Version Of "The War Of The Worlds" ". ARIA . Retrieved 25 October 2023. {{ cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= ( help)

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Staged to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the original 2006 tour. Featured an arched bridge running from the lip of the stage out over the audience, panoramic screens showing 2 hours of CGI footage, a new lighting production, pyrotechnics and special effects, including levitation. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. In a prologue, the Journalist notes that in the late 19th century few people had even considered the possible existence of extraterrestrial life, yet planet Earth had in fact long been enviously observed by advanced beings. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – The New Generation: Alive On Stage (2012)". Contains Moderate Peril. 20 January 2014. Archived from the original on 31 May 2015 . Retrieved 30 May 2015. Musical Version Of "The War Of The Worlds" ". Dutch Charts . Retrieved 25 October 2023. {{ cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= ( help)

Album of the week - Various Artists: The War of the Worlds" (PDF). Music Week. 3 June 1978. p.46 . Retrieved 17 February 2022– via World Radio History. Gary Barlow sings on new War of the Worlds album". BBC News. 18 September 2012 . Retrieved 30 May 2015. British album certifications – Jeff Wayne – The War Of The Worlds - New Generation". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 4 February 2021. Interview: Jeff Wayne, War of the Worlds composer". Culture Whisper. 26 September 2014 . Retrieved 17 February 2022.

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Porteous, Jacob (21 January 2016). "Casting Announced For Jeff Wayne's Musical Phenomenon The War Of The Worlds With Liam Neeson In 3D Hologram". London Theatre Direct . Retrieved 24 January 2016.

In 1999, a third-person shooter, also entitled Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds, was developed by Pixelogic and released for the Sony PlayStation. It used much of the 1998 game's music and graphical elements, but featured an entirely different campaign with a focus on vehicular combat.The album originated when Wayne was touring with singer-songwriter David Essex, for whom he also worked as his producer and musical director. Wayne felt the composing side of his career "had diminished" by this time, and started looking for a story "to get passionate about" and interpret musically, to which his father Jerry suggested the science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. [3] [4] The story instantly caught Wayne's imagination, and he finished the book in a single read. [5] He later said that a musical adaptation of other books were possible, and recalled being impressed by 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. [4] However, Wayne went on to read Wells's book "three or four times" and saw the 1953 film adaption, and decided it was the most suitable for a musical adaptation. [6] [7]

a b Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDFed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.298. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – Alive on Stage! The New Generation". Screen Daily . Retrieved 23 August 2013. Canadian album certifications – Various Artists – War of the Worlds". Music Canada . Retrieved 16 November 2019. Marti Pellow cancels stage shows in Germany". Daily Express. 4 January 2013 . Retrieved 30 May 2015.a b c d e Barker, Gerry (10 September 1978). " 'War of the Worlds' becomes all-star album". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. pp.65, 68 . Retrieved 17 February 2022– via Newspapers.com. Barry, Nathan (10 January 2013). "Jeff Wayne Introduces a New Generation to His Musical Version of The War of the Worlds". Wired. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023 . Retrieved 2 June 2023. In January 1975, [6] Wayne and his father acquired the rights to adapt the work from Wells's estate, which at the time was overseen by Wells's son Frank. Wayne spent three months locating Frank Wells, and found his ideas were well received because it was the first adaptation that stayed true to the story. [4] Wayne was aware of the famous 1938 radio drama adaptation directed and narrated by Orson Welles, but he wanted to stay close to the original story and set his version in Victorian England. [4] From the start Wayne saw his adaptation as an opera, with "story, leitmotifs, musical phrases, sounds and compositions that relate to the whole." [3] He wanted the music to have a "big, symphonic" sound when humans were telling the story, and a more aggressive and electric-based sound when the Martians were in action. [8] Wayne started by "organising a cast of characters", while having the book adapted to fit the content of the songs he had outlined for it by Doreen Wayne, his future stepmother who at the time was an established script writer and journalist. [9] Wayne used artistic license to create a love interest by replacing The Journalist's brother for Carrie, his wife. [10] At the same time, Wayne started to write the score and recorded demos in the studio, paying particular attention to how Wells originally wrote the story as a series of episodes with multiple cliff hangers to each chapter. [7] [3] Wayne recalled that he "wanted to have a bit of pressure" applied to the project in January 1976, so he booked studio time at Advision Studios in Fitzrovia, London for May of that year. The idea proved to be a productive for Wayne, who completed a draft of the entire work in six weeks. [3] a b "TWOTW comes to Cinema!". Ollie Record Productions. 17 January 2013. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013 . Retrieved 18 February 2013.