Only Needed Bill Murray's Lounge Act

Went to see "Star Wars In Concert" this week-end with the New England Heir (age 13) at the Fleet Center/TD BankNorth Boston Garden. (the multi-named place where the Celtics play) Thoroughly enjoyable except for the seats- the skyhigh view was great but stadium seats really uncomfortable. Got there early and took in the exhibits- a number of character costumes under glass and bunch of storm troopers, clone troopers, jedis, a darth vader, imperial officers) and others walking around for photo ops (forgot camera- got one of the boy with threatening storm troopers on my phone before battery quit- bad dad syndrome).

Big screen and sound was great and completely synched with a giant screen projection of scenes of the six films. Made me wonder if the music was pre-recorded- but there were 100+ musicians on the stage- bowing and blowing and banging appropriately so probably not. Great lights, lasers and occasional fire balls. The crowd was very mixed although lots and lots of very young kids born after the 2d trilogy was released (maybe their parents were fans too- this was the afternoon not the evening show). Some costumes in the audience- mainly little kids but someolder guys too. Lots of light sabers and light saber key rings in the crowd- fun to see them all when the lights went down and of course we saw a fair number of little boy light sabre fights too. Wouldn't call the crowd geeky at all- fair number of attractive adults without kids. My generation (late forties) was about the oldest in the joint (makes sense- the original movie came out when we were teens). My son really liked it too.

Anthony Daniels was an earnest narrator to bits and pieces of the stories. The music was great and loud. Funny moment at the end. All the parents with the tykes were streaming for the exits but C3PO ignored his eyes- "I can see you're not ready to go home- you want more of the dark side!" & the orchestra duly played an encore (the evil music again- the best or at least most stirring stuff). Ridiculously expensive but lots of fun