In a new interview with Billboard Magazine, composer Ramin Djawadi talked the upcoming Game of Thrones Concert Tour, plus, the inspiration for Concert Series. Game of Thrones certainly isn’t the first to do such a thing of course, but theirs may be one on a grander scale than most. One reason? Most “Concert series” tours are based in movies, not in TV shows.
Harry Potter, for instance, launched a concert tour just this past summer at the Hollywood Bowl. “Tour” is a looser term there, because at each stop it’s the local orchestra playing the music, not one orchestra traveling the country. And each stop picks their movie, (though, in order to have the John Williams pieces of the score included, most pick either of the first two.) The show is therefore only as long as the movie’s run time, since it’s a live concert playing along with the visual.
This is quite impossible for Game of Thrones, as no one is going to sit for sixty hours, and no orchestra is going to be able to play that long. And yet, when Benioff and Weiss said to Djawadi “Oh, we would love to hear this live, you have to play this live,” the idea for coming up with some sort of concert tour was born. Djawadi had serious ideas.
Ramin Djawadi conducts a suite of his music from Game of Thrones (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)
“What I always said was if we were going to do this concert I want to take it a step further than what people know as the traditional ‘Let’s play some music from your favorite TV show and have an orchestra.’ But let’s really turn it into a spectacle and an actual show.”
He insists though that for all the visuals, it’s all about the music.
“This is all about the music, but having the stage like you saw in the video, it really makes it very contemporary and exciting,” he said of the 360-degree stage that will bring the scenes to life using LED telescoping and wall screens that will be augmented by 3-D designs that rise and fall from the stage floor. “You can see we have fire on the screen and dragons and the middle part turns into The Wall and it can really mold into structures and locations that the show has that will take the audience on a more immersive, really exciting [experience].”
Though Djawadi doesn’t say it outright, the timing of the concert and the nature of it does give a sense as being a way to help hold over fans during the extra long wait for Season 7.
“The idea is to come out and relive all of the first six seasons with the fan-favorite pieces [of music] and, with that, relive some of their favorite scenes,” he said, noting that at various points the audience will feel like they’ve stepped inside a castle, a snowstorm or a blast of fire. “But we’re also creating our own content that will glue everything together and is Game of Thrones-inspired.”
So far no actors from the show have been confirmed to be part of the spectacle. But we can always hold out hope.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/10/14/new-ramin-djawadi-interview-about-the-got-tour-shell/
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