Group for fans of the 1978 musical war of the worlds where they can get togetherand chat about the experiance that is the war of the worlds .... probably the trippiest musical in the world ever...................... The War of the Worlds - A History No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Chapter 1 - The Eve of the War - The War of the Worlds, H.G.Wells. .: October 30, 1938 CBS Radio broadcast a version of War of the Worlds that sent the public into a panic. During the music of Ramon Raquello and his orchestra live from the Meridian Room at the Park Plaza in New York City, a reporter from Intercontinental Radio News interrupts the broadcast to deliver an important announcement. Astronomers have detected enormous blue flames shooting from Mars. For anyone who missed the disclaimer at the beginning of the play describing the following events as fictitious, they only had their common sense to defend them till the next disclaimer 40 minutes later. "Many listeners began to panic. Some people loaded blankets and supplies in their cars and prepared to flee the Martian invaders. One mother in New England reportedly packed her babies and lots of bread into a car, figuring that "if everything is burning, you can't eat money, but you can eat bread." Other people hid in cellars, hoping that the poisonous gas would blow over them. One college senior drove forty-five miles at breakneck speed in a valiant attempt to save his girlfriend." By the end of the night most people had learned that the news broadcast was fictitious. It was simply the weekly broadcast of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, and that week, in honor of Halloween, they had decided to stage a highly dramatized and updated version of H.G. Wells' story, War of the Worlds. The global situation in 1938 provided a context which allowed many to believe that such a series of events could be unfolding, many who panicked later said that they had assumed that the Martian invasion was actually a cleverly disguised German attack. ****DONT FORGET TO LEAVE MESSAGE'S IN THE FORUM****