![]() the show is set to run weekends through Sept. Previews start Friday at the Ivanhoe Theater, 750 W. Sketch comedy group the Free Associates' last new show of their ninth season is "A Long Play's Journey Into One Act: Eugene O'Neill Unscripted," a riff on the famed playwright. Lincoln Ave., Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays call 77 or Ticketmaster, 31. Mike Toomey's lovely television ode "TV & Me" is currently working the Apollo Theater, 2540 N. Charles on Saturday (call 63) and Zanies in Vernon Hills on Sunday (230 Hawthorn Village Commons, Vernon Hills 84). "All My Children" hunk Walt Willey - a pretty good comic, a really big draw - plays Zanies in the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Current sets are scheduled to run through Sunday all new acts begin on Tuesday unless otherwise noted. Here's who's working at the comedy clubs. You can also buy tickets for the Star Plaza by calling 21. Tickets for the performances at both venues can be acquired at their respective box offices, or through Ticketmaster at 31. "Weird Al" Yankovic plays two shows at the Skyline Stage at Navy Pier on Thursday and then travels out to the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville, Ind., on Aug. ![]() I'm a singer-songwriter-director-producer-gaffer-key grip-slapper-loader. I'm kind of a hyphen, in that I do a lot of things. I'm just kind of this guy that is a genre unto himself in a way. ![]() "I'm not really accepted in the comedy world, I'm not really accepted in the music world. "I really kind of fall between the cracks," explains Yankovic, whose "Running with Scissors" represents his 10th album. What Yankovic has never been able to get is any kind of definitive approval from either the comedy business or the music business. He says Lucas' "Star Wars" Web site has plugged the song, "the biggest seal of approval I think you could possibly get," Yankovic notes. Yankovic paid more attention to the detail of "American Pie" than he has for almost any other parody, studying the original carefully so he could "make sure I gave this song its due, because this song is such a classic. He got a little help with the beginning "American Pie" begins with "A long, long time ago." - "Star Wars' " famous opening line. During the Clone Wars, in 21 BBY, 1 Count Dooku referred to the planet Florrum as 'Godforsaken.' 2 When Ziro the Hutt was freed by Cad Bane a clone trooper says 'Oh my god.' During the New Republic Era, in 9 ABY, 3 a Mythrol mentioned God whilst in the custody of the bounty hunter Din Djarin. "American Pie," a favorite of Yankovic's, had enough of the "long, rambling narrative structure" that he thought would work in telling the story of the movie.Īfter scanning various Internet sites that leaked "Phantom" details before it came out, Yankovic wrote the song six weeks before the film's May release. God was a deity that was mentioned by several individuals in the galaxy. "But I thought, you know, `Star Wars' is such a classic movie, such a classic genre, it seems like it would be inappropriate to pair it with anything other than a classic rock song." "Obviously I could have waited and gone with a song that was more topical or a song that was more timely than `American Pie,' " explains the Grammy winner. "I decided at that moment that I should base my life around the release of the next `Star Wars' movie," Yankovic says, "because it was obviously going to be an incredibly huge pop culture event, and my career is based on doing takeoffs of huge pop culture events."Īfter Yankovic got permission from Lucas to produce the song, he racked his brain for an existing tune suitable enough to convey the spirit of the subject matter. Then she meets Ben.Yankovic, who has carved a career out of making fun of others' songs for 20 years, immersed himself in "Phantom Menace" when he heard a few years ago the first chapter of the "Star Wars" saga was finally coming out after years of speculation. Rey is working another dead-end job trying to make ends meet. ![]() MalevolentReverie Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
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