First the info…
“The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular will be in the U.S. for the first time when the live show comes to Barclays Center on Wednesday, October 7 at 3:00PM & 7:30PM. This event celebrates the world’s longest running science fiction TV series, features award-winning music written by Murray Gold and features well over 100 musicians, singers, and monsters live on stage, all under the talented conducting baton of Ben Foster. The show will be hosted by actor Michelle Gomez who portrays Missy, the latest incarnation of the Doctor’s arch-nemesis the Master.
Fans can expect to see some of the Doctor’s most fearsome adversaries live on stage including Daleks, Cybermen, Judoon, Whispermen, and more. The live performances will be accompanied by a big screen presentation of key moments and specially edited sequences from the past decade of Doctor Who.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 8, but as a Barclays Center Behind the Scenes subscriber, you have the exclusive opportunity to purchase tickets using the presale information below:
BEGINS: Today, May 7 at 10:00AM
ENDS: Tonight, May 7 at 10:00PM
Offer Code: BARCLAYS
Link to purchase: click here”
Now the sell or not? I am a huge Dr. Who fan but the truth is they have never had a Who as great as Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi. Life is long, they coulda given the youthful, strange, otherworldly Matt ten years of Who and lost nothing in the grand scheme, but by replacing him for the great actor Peter Capaldi, they lost a teen Who attracting generations of fans (not to mention generations of US fans) for a prickly Scottish pain in the neck.
Is showrunner Stephen Moffat ambitious? Absolutely he is and so is “Dr. Who” but the thing about ambition is your risks don’t always pay off. Capaldi reminds me of the white haired aging Who of the early 1960s: he exudes a temporal uncool. Moffat could have given us a female Who or could’ve given us a black Who, instead he went back to the future with a meh Who and a handful of episodes which just didn’t quite capture the magic. Plus Jenna Coleman as Clara, his new assistant, is beyond irritating. Everything about the new Who makes me go boo hoo.
As for the symphonic Who -it does look cool doesn’t it. We wrote about the London version and personally, I am seriously considering seeing it though, as Helen Bach mentioned, what the hell are they doing a Wednesday at 3pm when all the schoolchildren are, well, in school (hence the name).
