Philip French 

The War of the Worlds Alive on Stage! – review

This record of an O2 Arena performance of Jeff Wayne's musical has limited appeal, writes Philip French
  
  

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Jason Donovan in The War of the Worlds Alive on Stage! Photograph: Roy Smiljanic Photograph: Roy Smiljanic

Jeff Wayne's rock music version of HG Wells's 1898 novel brought together at the O2 arena in Greenwich a giant widescreen, a 45-piece orchestra energetically conducted by Wayne, five on-stage actors and Liam Neeson as narrator in holograph form (a novel way to telephone in a performance). It was filmed there last December, and the resultant documentary record may be a useful aide-memoire to those who saw it but it's not much of a film.

 

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