Taiwan casts robots in Phantom of the Opera, Lloyd Webber seen kicking himself repeatedly
By Laura June 
posted Dec 12th 2008 1:35PM
posted Dec 12th 2008 1:35PM
[Thanks, Tim]
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"As if upstaging Sarah Brightman with a robot isn't service enough already."
I don't know who Sarah Brightman is, but that is one hell of a "Zing!"
the end is nigh.
first they will learn how to sing and dance. next up is Rambo.
....man, I would LOVE to see Rambo sing and dance...
on second thought, that may be kinda painful to watch...
It has begun. First this and next thing you know they will be taking our mcdonalds jobs and selling oranges in the street and taking our house keeping jobs.
*gets his guns and calls Sarah
http://i33.tinypic.com/r9r7n5.jpg
Before I clicked the picture (cautiously, as I know the potential follies of opening random image links, especially at work), I assumed you meant Sarah Connor (a la the image above), but then realized how wrong I was and I must apologize to Ms. Connor for my mistake as she is much more likable than the horrible ignorant bitch found in that link.
Yeah i forgot to put in the /sarcasm command.
...... hope some1 sees what I did there.
{stupid] see what now? ^/stupid"
Barbie says "HTML tags are hard!"
*sigh* that woman is probably the most likely to be our savior in the coming robot wars.
Sarah Brightman was the lead female singer in Webber's original production of Phantom of the Opera. I got the musical on CD. It is real good.
We could be so lucky as to have robots running the fast food joints. They might not understand your order... but at least the service would be consistent.
…Maybe just have the one human in the whole place be the sucker who ‘programs’ the order.
"much more likable than the horrible ignorant bitch found in that link."
Stay classy, asshole.
LMAO! I thought you meant Sarah Connor until i clicked the Picture! HA!
Yay! Somebody finally got it.
:P
:: puts head in hands. Weeps::
We're past the point of no return here folks. The final curtain.
"What warm unspoken secrets will we learn?"
Love your avatar, Doohan FTW!
Anyone else think Simon Pegg will make a terrible Scotty, and that Paul McGillion (Carson Beckett from Stargate Atlantis) would have been a MUCH better choice?
It's off topic, but yes, I totally agree on the Scotty point.
As long as Andrew Lloyd Weber is kicking himself repeatedly, I'm happy.
awesome. This is about the only thing that would get me to attend musical theater.
On his way to taking over the service industry, Thomas stopped off to support the local Gay Pride parade because robots have fealings too.
This should definitely be shown worldwide in some sort of webcast or something.
I was totally expecting a T-101 to be used. Instead, Taiwan is using an out of shape bucket to replace human tallent.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news_images/20081212/p16h.jpg
That picture is wrong on so many levels...
Props to the person who mentioned Sarah Brightman. Especially if you have seen Repo: The Genetic Opera!
WOOT REPO!
www.repo-opera.com
That picture! lolz!
I totally agree, this picture is hilarious. I LOL'd at work and almost kicked a cubicle wall down.
"United States debuts Mamma Mia!"
"United States debuts Cats"
The headline could use a little touch up. "Taiwanese" would be much more suitable, but still not the best option I'm sure.
Just don't let them play a Terminator musical, please, I, for one, do not welcome our all-singing, all-dancing, silicon-muscled, metal-boned robotic overlords.
At long last, C3PO will have a group of contemporaries who share his love for Oscar Wilde and Cole Porter. He always felt that R2D2, while a steadfast and loyal companion, was a bit too blue collar to be a true companion.
Up next, robots against Prop. 8.
NO! NO! NO!
These robots could be put to much better use by replacing Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere in a refilming of Chicago.
Can't they invent a robot that kicks Andrew Lloyd Webber repeatedly?
Does this mean they were all humans on that Graham Norton show?
If anyone has read/seen iRobot, you would understand my great elatio-- I mean-- concern. Robots will rule the world!
The only person that can upstage Sarah Brightman is Sarah Brightman. She's me Angel of Music!
Next up is probably Romeo and Juliet, you can just imagine the more emotional scenes, oh...Romeo....Romeo... Who...Art...Thou....Romeo
Moar like Robeo, Robeo, wherefore art thou Robeo?
Amirite?!
more like
juliet: syn
romeo: ack
You may not believe it but Sarah Brightman is very popular in Taiwan.
So is your mom.
ohhhh, so thats why i saw an american woman on the corner......
School days, school days, good old golden rule days...
thats a crappy copy and paste job!
stop using MSpaint!
But can they mimic the human emotion known as "wuv?"
nice touch with the reflection of the rose in the chrome.
Best Engadget picture Ever.
LMAO! I thought you meant Sarah Connor until i clicked the Picture! HA!
DARFSTELLAR and other stories.; MILLER WALTER M.
Nuff said!
I think I'll notify The Center for Intelligent Robots at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taipei to create a robot that sings like Sarah Brightman minus Antonio Banderas, fights and acts like Rambo (dumb slurred forced conversations optional!), Dances with Wolves, Drives Miss Daisy, and hangs out on the corner like Tom's Mom. (Bob will be a paid consultant as he knows Tom's Mom better than Tom does). Then I'll write the script for Robeo and Juliobot and it will be performed while Andrew Lloyd Webber repeatedly kicks himself (in the nuggets) centerstage.