@hencegoodfortune I don’t know if you can really call it a musical but I don’t know how else to describe it. It’s not a stage musical. It’s basically an album (LP) where Jeff Wayne took the original The War of the Worlds story and set it to music and added song interspersed with narration. I think I saw video a while ago where they got an orchestra together and put on a concert like they’ll sometimes do for reunions of broadway musicals and stuff. I’ll go looking for a link when I have access to a computer; right now I’m on mobile. Either way the whole thing should be on YouTube or if not I’ve been listening to it on Spotify. In regards to the book, Wizard of Mars, Ronan sings “Oh the chances of anything coming from Mars… are a million to one he said… Oh the chances of anything coming from Mars… are a million to one… but still they come…” which is a lyric snippet from the first track on the album, The Eve Of The War. When later on they accidentally recreate The War of the Worlds on Mars, DD uses Orson Welles’ radio play because even with the original book and all the other adaptations the radio play is still the most well known and pop-culturally relevant version of the story. But Ronan singing is a direct reference to the album. On an interesting note, that lyric snippet along with the music for that section of the track is one of my favorite parts of that song and the album and the first time I read it and every time since I’ve been able to very vividly recall how the song sounds during that part which is why I was craving listening to it again. The album is pretty good and worth listening to imo. Some of the songs aren’t great but I’m super in love with the music itself. Imo there are some really great moments where it’s just all instrumental.
Edit: I don't trust myself to get back to finding the links when I know I'm gonna be busy tomorrow so I grabbed a couple off the YouTube app. I'll clean them up one my computer later. This is the song I was talking about, The Eve of the War that Ronan sings: https://youtu.be/_ElkNcCAhS This is a link for some sort of mixed stage production and video thing they did a couple years ago which is the concert I was thinking about above. I haven't watched more than the five minutes but it seems okay. They added stuff though so you wont have the same experience if you just lists to the album: https://youtu.be/i6ckXQoBw2M
