Imagine the musical, but with the story fleshed out, foley sounds and instrumental music added and that is what you get. Since this is based off of the musical, it finds a very natural home as a radio drama. Wells' novel and have yet to listened to Jeff Wayne's musical, or if you're a fan of both. It captures the fantastic story about an empire's fall that helped defined a genre, paired with the music we've loved so well. If you can't tell, I absolutely adore this audiobook. I could go on about the sound design, and production quality, but this review is getting long enough as it is (I didn't mean to write an essay. we don't get to hear Justin Hayward singing about how the winter winds will be much colder in this rendition. Also there is no singing in the audiobook, which means no Spirit of Man, Thunder Child, Eve of the War or Forever Autumn. There is some original or remixed pieces of music created for this, and that variation did actually keep me more interested. However this isn't a complete copy and paste from the musical. When the main character is at Horsell Common and you've heard Jeff Wayne's musical before you already know what is being played in the background. Individual music queues, sound effects and references are used in the appropriate time in the story to add the appropriate atmosphere. His music from the Next Generation version of the musical is used all throughout the book.
Everyone did a spectacular performance, and all the different characters were fun and interesting to listen to. I wasn't familiar with her previous works but she blew it out of the water here. I was especially surprised with Anna-Marie Wayne's performance as George's wife. You can feel the despair and loss as the story continues through his delivery. Michael Sheen does a jaw dropping job playing the main character (dubbed George in this rendition). As you can tell by the credits, there are a good deal of narrators, each playing individual characters from the novel, and each one does a spectacular performance. The narrative here is classic and well put together, as to be expected judging from the source material. While the story beats are identical, with just extremely minor changes to help make the audiobook flow better. Wells' classic, nor is this a complete recreation of Jeff Wayne's musical It is it's own thing. After listening to it in practically a single sitting I was not disappointed and was impressed with how this turned out If you're thinking about getting this, please understand this is not an unabridged telling of H.G. So once I heard of this audiobook I immediately had to get it. I've loved Jeff Wayne's rendition of 'The War of the Worlds' ever since I was a kid. Wonderful production paired with a classic story.
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