Global Star Wars:
In Concert Tour Booked for Frank
Erwin Center on June 6th
The unique multi-media
event Star Wars: In Concert - featuring music from all six of John
Williams' epic Star Wars scores - will play two performances on
June 6th at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Frank Erwin Center.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, March 13th at 10 a.m.
The multimedia production
features a full symphony orchestra and choir, accompanied by
specially edited footage from the films displayed on a
three-story-tall, high-definition LED
super-screen - one of the largest ever
put on tour. Tour producers say the footage runs in sync
with the live music to create a one-of-kind Star Wars experience.
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"This event has been
crafted to present Star Wars from many points of view, said Another
Planet Touring Producer Spencer Churchill. "For the
first time, the full dramatic sweep of John Williams' iconic
scores can be heard performed live in one evening."
"We've taken the key
themes from the music and cut together all the images that fit
with each theme - so you can really get a sense of how the
music played into the images," said George Lucas, creator
of the Star Wars saga. "The whole soundtrack is a testament to
John Williams' creativity and his extraordinary ability to
enhance the emotional aspects of the films."
Accompanying the concert
is an exclusive exhibit of Star Wars costumes, props, artifacts, production
artwork and specially created behind-the-scenes videos from the
Lucasfilm archives. Many of these pieces are leaving Skywalker
Ranch for the first time ever, and the exhibit features many
classic fan favorite artifacts, as well as several new and
never-before-seen items, including:
- Full costumes for Jedi Masters
Kit Fisto and Plo Koon;
- Pages from John Williams'
original hand-written sheet music for Star Wars: Episode I
The Phantom Menace - exhibited for the first time ever to
the public;
- Various never-before-seen props
from the films, including blasters and helmets from
Coruscant, Tatooine and other
iconic Star Wars locations.
The Austin performances are
part of the return of a fifty-city leg of the worldwide tour
that starts May 13th in Ft. Myers, Florida, and will include
dates in the United States and Canada. More than 350,000
people attended Star Wars: In
Concert during its three-month
inaugural 47-city North American tour last year, which Pollstar
rated as the 9th Largest Tour of 2009.
The tour's return to
North America follows a month in Europe - with stops in
Dublin, Liverpool, Glasgow, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, Milan,
Antwerp, Hamburg. The tour will also again play the O2
Arena in London, where it began one year ago.
"Creating the music
for the Star Wars films has been an exciting and wonderful experience
for me, and I therefore have derived particular pleasure in
assembling a compendium of themes from all of the films to be
presented in Star Wars: In Concert," said score composer John Williams.
"The editors at Lucasfilm have created original film
montages to accompany each of the musical selections, and in
the process, I believe that a singular and unique Star Wars experience
has been born."
Tickets for the
Austin stop of the tour are $35, $55 and $65. A
“Family Four Pack “of tickets will also be
available for $100, for a limited time.
Tickets available at
all Texas Box Office outlets - including more H-E-B stores - by
phone at (512) 477-6060 or 1-800-982-2386, and online at www.TexasBoxOffice.com. For more information, visit www.UTErwinCenter.com.
(Image courtesy Erwin Center)
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