| Jan. 23rd, 2010 @ 06:33 pm EXCALIBUR... |
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Current Mood:  busy
Current Music: "Who wants to live forever" by Queen
…The Celtic Rock Opera! What a great show it was last night! Definitely more rock than opera…but that was really fine with me *laughs* The show was a bit of everything: part musical, part rock concert, part Irish Tap Dance Show, part circus…part theatre. The music was awesome…and I was especially happy about the guys of CORVUS CORAX being part of the show *gg* Love 'em… ^^ (this is what they usually sound like in a concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jrTRgGWcpE) The star of the show though, besides German actor Michael Mendl, who was Merlin and the narrator of the story about Excalibur, certainly was Johnny Logan. He sang most of the songs…and he portrayed Arthur *laughs* Well…he did an okay job…but I’m too spoiled by Clive Owen’s Arthur to say that Johnny was awesome ;-P Yet I guess he’s a better singer than Clive. Anyway…the cast of the show is very international. Musicians from England, Ireland, Bulgaria and Germany meet dancers from Ireland, knights from Germany and circus artists from France. The French artists in their fantasy costumes portrayed the dark forces of nature that first destroyed the elven folk (the Irish Dancers) and then threatened the humans. And they all performed on a stage that had the shape of a sword *g* Very fitting. Oh, and there were horses as well! They had a short appearance during the joust between Arthur and Lancelot. A large screen behind the stage was constantly showing videos fitting the songs played…mostly Welsh landscape…or a castle that was supposed to be Camelot.
What I definitely had to get used to was an Irish tap dancing Lancelot *laughs* But the guy at least looked the part. Very handsome. Guinevere was portrayed by a German singer…while Morgana was a French artiste. Here are a few pictures of the show:

I think, besides CORVUS CORAX, the French artists were my favourite part of the show. They were really amazing! Well, okay…the music in general was really good, straight out Celtic and Progressive Rock…see:
All in all my dear friend Mel and I had a fun night out and of course we bought the CD with the music of the show :) Wish you all a fab weekend!! *hugs flist* |