March 10th 2010 seemed to come around awfully quickly.  I remember back in when Sue bought the tickets (or rather I bought the tickets, Sue decided that they were going to be my Christmas present) that the date seemed an awful way away.  The idea of seeing a full orchestra live, playing iconic music that I’d grown up with excited me.

I was looking forward to this until I’d seen a few comments on the web and read a review which prepared me for the worst.  I know this instilled me with some preconceptions but I’m glad I had them – I wanted to go in there expecting a poor show and being suprised.  Knowing there were going to be one or two issues with things lessened the impact whilst I was there.

We got pretty decent seats – I say decent seats when I mean the seats were terrible and my back really suffered.  They were positioned very well though; We were in the front block closest to the stage, 4th row back in seats 13 and 14.  Not a bad view really, especially since the two people sitting in the 3rdr row directly in front of us didn’t turn up.  Got a nice view of the stage, the orchestra and Anthony Daniels.

The orchestra were absolutely fantastic, they brought the John Williams masterpieces to life with such enthusiasm and gusto, it was hard at times to ignore the goosebumps and hairs on the back of your neck standing up.  There were two large cranes which were set up to provide video of the orchestra and conductor as they played.  Despite these sometimes getting in the way of the view of the stage,  it was fascinating to watch the conductor and to watch the video footage of them playing.  The rest of the time, the giant HD screen displayed montages of footage from all six Star Wars films.