Star Wars Cabaret Night - May 4th 2010

OK, so this isn't 'technically' a guild event, but its an event which may involve the guild, so I feel justified putting it here!

This is primarily for our UK-based Guildies, but if any of the rest of you fancy a trip I thought I would mention....

The Star Wars Cabaret Night 2010!


Its at "The Talking Heads" pub in Southampton (Smudge knows the area ) on the South Coast of the UK and prices range from £8 - £12 and here is the original email I got:

Info@thetalkingheads.co.uk wrote:

Come one come all to The Star Wars Cabaret!

Ever wonder where the female Stormtroopers were?

Ever wonder about the lengths vadar went to to make the Deathstar more environmentally friendly?

what kind of exhaust came out of that exhaust port anyway right?

All these questions answered and more on Tuesday May 4th

The Star Wars Cabaret - Featuring

Theatre - The Blag It! Theatre group, based in Southampton have produced many products of alternative theatre including the recent "Robin Hood - Lock, Stock & 2 bows and arrows
http://www.blagittheatrecompany.com/

Burlesque - Who else but Roxy Twirls and Roxy's Rockets! look forward to sultry performances as well as table service for Gold ticket holders!
http://roxytwirls.co.uk/home

Music - Local Hero's Rayguns look real enough performing songs and music from the original films!
http://www.myspace.com/raygunslookrealenough

Art - The art and sci fi enthusiast that amongst other projects has helped bring to life the new Goblets street art gallery will be creating a gallery of Star Wars paraphernalia - John Howse
http://www.myspace.com/johnhowse

Comedy - Our very own Comedy Promoter/performer extraordinaire Mr Alex Dawson of Jestnation will step in as narator to guide us as we dive into the rich Star Wars universe
https://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=43117493161&ref=ts

Gold tickets - £12 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/78944
These tickets are seated at the front and also give you access to Roxy's Rockets table service!

Silver tickets - £10 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/78945
These tickets are seated but do not include table service

Bronze tickets - £8 - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/78946
These tickets are standing at the rear of the seating sections.

All tickets have equal access to the art gallery/viewing area

May the 4th be with you....

I wish I could come but not in a week day.

Sounds fun, but the wrong end of the country for me.

Soude wrote:

I wish I could come but not in a week day.

Aye its a shame its a school night otherwise I'd love to have gone to this seeing as its not far from where I am.

Not a question of school but of asking for 2 days off at work. :/

Hehehe nah it's just an old expression, I can assure you I can't even remember school, it really was THAT long ago.

Pah, schools... We never had schools when I was a kid. We had to sit in a cardboard box and use slate and chalk. Kids these days...

I'll be finishing off my thesis in time for the 6th :/

Ah, the Talking Heads Pub. Never will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. Probably wouldn't be able to make it, what with exams looming.

Sounds fun, but with the Vulcan/ ash problem i cant go to UK and get stuck.

Right, sod you lot then I'll fly (han) solo!

I'll grab holo-images for you all.

Sureshot wrote:

I can assure you I can't even remember school, it really was THAT long ago.

Nosyd wrote:

Pah, schools... We never had schools when I was a kid. We had to sit in a cardboard box and use slate and chalk. Kids these days...

School do not exist, it's a story to scare kids ^^,

Right, I'm heading off to southampton to a mate's place to get glazy-eyed before heading to this event this evening.

Wish me luck and with hope I'll come back with Photos......when I come to!

:'( Have a drink and some fun for those who cannot come.

Have fun mate, I want photos of any Slave Leia Burlesque dancers Please.

Soude wrote:

:'( Have a drink and some fun for those who cannot come.

Oh I did that alright, *** ow my head... *** I'll get some photos up later when I sober up enough to drive to my girlfriends place and link the camera up with her pc.

Tell you all about it then, t'was good fun!

Sounds good...
I was on Hoth sneaking in Echo base and teaching some of those rebels scums a lesson or two... An epic success for my first heroic instance ever in SWG. ((Another proof that Spy is the easiest class ever in SWG at least with a nice stated armor.))

All this to say I'm not jealous and I don't regret having to stay here in France :'(

Well the Cabaret night was a shed-load of fun but alas, the vast majority will be lost on here as I only have images to show which make up only part of the comedy!

Basically it was a low-budget parody of what happened to the characters after the films, how they coped with having to return to mundane lives after being heroes/villains of the galaxy.

It involved comedy sketches about the characters interspersed with musical numbers and burlesque dancing.

They did some rather unusual (but nonetheless hilarious) interpretations of the now 'out-of-work' Star Wars characters...

(Click on the images for larger versions)

DARTH VADER: Is angry, embittered, and attempting to take over the Galaxy his way now that the Emperor is out of the way, but is having very little success indeed. He's played by a guy in black with a bucket on his head!


'LUKE' and OBI-WAN: Obi-wan is dead (thanks Vader!) which he constantly reminds people of and spends the majority of the show explaining to people that, being dead, he can't be held accountable for anything. Luke is not luke at all, which he mentions when he first arrives saying "The Agency is all out of Lukes, its May The 4th after all..." and is actually a slack-jawed dim-witted Elton John lookalike...


PRINCESS LEIA: Is not unlike the comedy version from
Spaceballs. Like 'Luke' she is terribly dense but is also spoilt and passive-aggressive


HAN SOLO: Is played (simultaneously) by the comedy duo of Rayguns Look Real Enough who, apart from singing about Star Wars, also have all the "scruffy nerf-herder" style jokes


YODA: Is played as nonsensical and barmy as he is in the Dagobah sections of the film and spends his post-film time handing out rubbish advice and being the game-show host for "Star Wars Family Fortunes" (see later). He's played by a guy in green and an outfit which I assume is meant to be a rock (those are his little yoda legs I believe) but which looks more like a dress made of vomit


THE DROIDS: The two famous droids are basically played by an INCREDIBLY CAMP C-3PO and a hoover called 'R2-Dyson'. Of all the characters C-3PO steals the show the most with his catty behavior and quick one-liners. R2 doesn't say much, he's a vacuum cleaner...



The Music: The music was supplied by Rayguns Look Real Enough and were excellent music-mashups of lots of different songs done in a comedic manner. I admit I wasn't sure I was going to like it to begin with but the guys have such exceptional vocal range and comedy timing that I couldn't help but laugh. Its all done in a very "Flight of the Conchords" style. Alas they don't have the star wars songs on their site yet, but hopefully that'll change because they were pretty damn awesome!


The Dancing Girls: The Burlesque dancers weren't bad, but are not the best I've seen by a long shot. They're also not the slimmest of girls either, but then again not everyone is into that kind of thing. Their dancing was well done as was the stripping, and for their faults I have to say they were pretty brave to get up in front of loads of SW nerds! (no leia bikini dances or twi'lek's though, alas...)





The Comedy Sketches: There were 3 main sketches and many smaller ones but they all dealt with what happened to the characters after they finished in star wars and fell from the public eye. Most of them went into television, going on shows like:

Celebrity Come Dine With Me:


and

Star Wars Family Fortunes:


Overall it was a really enjoyable night; the bar served many star wars drinks from 'Blue Milk' to 'Tattooine Sunset' and I went with a mate of mine and hung out with a group of really nice lasses (yes, girls at a Star Wars thing!). It was definitely worth the meager £12 I paid to go!

Some more random pictures:

Yoda trying in vain to explain the ways of the Farce to 'Luke'

More C-3PO campness

Obi-wan quizzes 'Luke' about his attire

The ever-wise Yoda

Looks like we all missed load of fun Except for LW :/

Looks great LW, shame I couldn't make it down