O, nerd joy! I just found out there exists such a glorious thing as the Internet Broadway Database. I don’t know I could have missed this. Living in a cave? Seduced, perhaps, by the indispensable Internet Movie Database?

No matter. Yay, happiness. When I was a kid I used to pour over cast recording liner notes to try to figure out why a voice sounded familiar. Now I have the miracle of IBDB. Huzzah!

I hesitate to mention how I made this serendipitous discovery, but some of you would appreciate the fruits of this path. I was flipping through blogs for design inspiration, and I happened upon one which featured a clip of Yoda rapping. I thought I’d track down the source and ended up on the Star Wars fan film awards site hosted by AtomFilms. There I learned about the newly released version of the Star Wars Gangsta Rap. It’s certainly prettier than the original version, but there’s something missing, I think. I didn’t laugh nearly as hard when Vader slices off Luke’s hand this time round.

From here I meandered through the 2005 offerings to discover the ever so delightful One Season More. Of course insufferable Luke is a Disney character yearning to break free from his provincial life. Why didn’t I see it before?

I had to know more about Timothy Edward Smith, one of the wits behind this bit, and that Google search led me to discover the IBDB.

And then there’s this:

Star Wars the Musical.

I had heard about this one, but I had no idea the songs were available online. Oh my. Think I’d better fetch Ãron for a proper geek fest.

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