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And anyway, it isn’t as ridiculous because it first sounds – the design of the Daleks themselves was impressed by the way in which the Georgian State Dancers in lengthy clothes appeared to glide throughout the ground.
Encore!
But whereas the TV present has skirted across the fringe of a musical a number of instances, it has by no means gone all the way in which. No, we’re not counting ‘The Gunfighters’.
But whereas the TV present is but to offer us the extravaganza we deserve, Doctor Who has all the time been way over only a TV present, and others have tried to make this imaginative and prescient a actuality. Big Finish audios, maybe naturally, have been the primary to enterprise into this territory. The Sixth Doctor journey, ‘Doctor Who and the Pirates’ options a number of Gilbert & Sullivan-inspired numbers. Third Doctor companion, Jo Grant, has additionally featured within the story ‘The Scorchies’, which sees her trapped by aliens posing as a Muppets-esque 70s youngsters’s present, with catchy songs that may keep in your head for years. Everyone studying this who’s already heard that one will now be buzzing “Jo is making a factor”.
Perhaps probably the most stunning try at a Doctor Who musical, nevertheless, comes from the Doctor Who Magazine month-to-month comedian, with the story “Planet Bollywood”. It’s exhausting to hold a tune in a speech bubble, however this story tries gamely with lyrics like “Technobabble, technobabble, half the time it appears like he’s gone psychological, technobabble, technobabble, my mind’s not dimension transcendental”.
But to essentially see the concept reside as much as its full potential, we’ve acquired to see it occur on the display screen, and never simply so we will enrage 1000’s of followers by having a legion of Cybermen do “the robotic”.
One of Russell T Davies’s huge improvements when he introduced the present again – such an enormous innovation, in truth, that it felt prefer it had all the time been a part of the present – was the “celeb historic”, and the primary topic of one in every of these episodes was the creator Charles Dickens. He was adopted by William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie, leaving writers fairly nicely lined, after which Van Gogh, to tick off the visible arts. It’s time for the Doctor to drop in on Beethoven or Elvis Presley, or anybody besides Andrew Lloyd Webber.
