Winter may be passing, but music is coming with ‘Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience’.
After news that the next season of the hit TV show will not air until summer 2017, the show’s usual springtime slot is being filled with a musical tour of North America.
The show’s composer, Ramin Djawadi, is bringing the fictional continent of Westeros to life in a concert with extravagant scenery and will take audiences on a tour of the different realmsmusically.
On Wednesday (February 1), Djawadi and his orchestra and choir invited journalists to the Warner Bros lot in Burbank to see them rehearse and give an idea of what to expect ahead of their first performance on February 20 in Minneapolis.
“The idea is to take you through all six seasons,” Djawadi told Reuters. “Obviously there’s way too much material, way too much music and way too much content but we tried very hard to start at the beginning and in a very quick way to take you through six seasons and show you all the highlights of the show.” He added, “Definitely all the spoilers will be in there.”
Djawadi has been responsible for all the music on the hit television series, and not only wrote the catchy title track but has also penned themes for all the main familial houses and certain characters, like Arya Stark, Jon Snow and Daenarys Targaryen, have also been assigned theme tunes.
“As the seasons have progressed and as the story has expanded, so has the score,” explained Djawadi. “It’s gone all the way to a full orchestra and a full choir and it’s exciting every season to find new instrumentation for what we haven’t used before. One good example I like to use is ‘The Light of the Seven’ from last season, season six, where for the first time we used piano which until now we hadn’t used in the score so now to perform that live is great. Having the piano piece fits the live performance really well.”
Although Djawadi couldn’t confirm if cast members from the show would join the tour, he did say there would be known artists coming to play with him and his orchestra and choir.
At the rehearsal, though, cast members Liam Cunningham and Jacob Anderson, who play Ser Davos and Grey Worm respectively, did drop by after visiting Los Angeles for the SAG awards.
Cunningham reacted by saying “I looked and I went ‘You have got to be kidding me’. The scope of this thing is enormous and I’ve seen a little bit of some of the effects that they’re using and some of things that are going on. I’m not going to give anything away but it’s absolutely gorgeous. I’m dying to see it.”
‘Game of Thrones’ has been a television phenomenon and has garnered large praise in the industry, winning Golden Globes, SAG awards, a BAFTA, and several Emmys.
“Listen, the best drama holds a mirror up to society,” explained Cunningham, adding “One could certainly say that certain recently elected officials in a certain country could easily fit into our cast. I’ll leave that to your imagination.”
‘Game of Thrones’ Live Concert Experience’ begins its tour on February 20 in Minneapolis, and travels across the United States until finishing in Portland, Oregon on April 2.
