Doctor Who: A Celebration

Doctor Who: A Celebration
Venue:	Wales Millennium Centre
Date of event:	19 November 2006
Broadcast date:	25 December 2006 (90 min version) 31 March 2007 (40 min version)
Originally broadcast on:	BBC Red Button
Premiere network:	BBC Radio Wales
Host:	David Tennant
Featuring:	Murray Gold, Russell T Davies, Daleks
Music:	Murray Gold
Conductor:	Ben Foster
Vocalists:	Melanie Pappenheim, Gary Williams
Confidential:	Music and Monsters
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Doctor Who: A Celebration was a special concert performed in order to raise money for Children in Need 2006.

It was broadcast live from the Wales Millennium Centre on BBC Radio Wales on 19 November 2006 with commentary by Alan Thompson and Chris Corcoran.

A special 60 minute edition of Doctor Who Confidential called Music and Monsters was broadcast on television on BBC One on 25 December 2006, immediately afterwards a 90 minute edit of the concert ran on the BBC Red Button service. This edit was made avalible to view on the Doctor Who website from c. 24 January 2007.

A 40 minute edit was broadcast on television on BBC Two Wales on 31 March 2007.

During the extended 35 minute interval, as the preview of The Runaway Bride was not broadcast, BBC Radio Wales broadcast interviews with Murray Gold, Ben Foster and Clayton Hickman.

Synopsis

It was the very first Doctor Who-related concert, paving the way for Doctor Who at the Proms in years to come. Like the Doctor Who Proms to come, it featured a lead actor as a host (David Tennant), and Doctor Who monsters in prosthetics (Ood, Daleks, Clockwork Droids, Cyberman), on-stage and among the crowd.

Doctor Who: A Celebration featured the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Ben Foster, the BBC National Chorus of Wales, and performances by Melanie Pappenheim and Gary Williams.

As well as music from series 1 and 2, composed by Murray Gold, this concert also contained performances of "The Runaway Bride" and "Love Don't Roam" (sung by Gary Williams) from The Runaway Bride, which would not be released for another month. The former piece was performed alongside a preview of the car chase scene from the upcoming Christmas special.

Programme

Act 1

Melanie Pappenheim sings "The Doctor's Theme".

• "The Doctor's Theme" - performed by Melanie Pappenheim

Concert Prologue

Rose Sequence

• "Westminster Bridge" (Rose–)
• "Rose's Theme" (Rose–Doomsday)
• "Clockwork TARDIS" (The End of the World)

Monster Mash / Space & Monsters Sequence

• "The Slitheen" (Aliens of London / World War Three)
• "Cassandra's Waltz" (The End of the World, New Earth)
• "Monster Bossa" (Boom Town)
• "The Girl in the Fireplace" suite, incl. "The Clock on the Mantle", "Madame de Pompadour" (The Girl in the Fireplace)
• "Tooth and Claw" (Tooth and Claw, The Satan Pit)

Music from The Tenth Doctor

• "The Christmas Invasion Suite"
  • "TARDIS Crash" (The Christmas Invasion)
  • "Sycorax Encounter" (The Christmas Invasion)
  • "UNIT" (The Christmas Invasion)
  • "The Sword Fight" (The Christmas Invasion)
  • "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister" (The Christmas Invasion)
• "New Adventures" (Boom Town, The Parting of the Ways, New Earth, The Satan Pit, Doomsday)

Sneak preview of The Runaway Bride

• "The Runaway Bride" (The Runaway Bride)

Interval

Act 2

Questions and Answers - with David Tennant, Murray Gold, Russell T Davies

• "The Dalek Suite" - with choir
  • "The Daleks" (Dalek, Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways)
  • "Rose in Peril" (Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways, The Impossible Planet)
  • "Emperor of the Daleks" (Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways)
  • "I'm Coming to Get You" (Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways)
• "The Cybermen Suite" (extended) (Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel – Army of Ghosts / Doomsday)
• "The Parting of the Ways Suite" - with choir
  • "Finding Jackie" (The Parting of the Ways, The Satan Pit)
  • "Hologram" (The Parting of the Ways, Doomsday)
    

    Gary Williams performs "Song for Ten" at the end of the concert.
  • "Rose Defeats the Daleks" (The Parting of the Ways, The Satan Pit)
  • "The Lone Dalek" (Dalek, The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit)

• "Doomsday" - performed by Melanie Pappenheim (Doomsday)
• "Love Don't Roam" - performed by Gary Williams (The Runaway Bride)
• "Song for Ten" - performed by Gary Williams (The Christmas Invasion)
• "Doctor Who Theme" (closing theme)

Cast

• Introduced by David Tennant, with Russell T Davies
• Dalek Voice - Nick Briggs
• Dalek Operators - Barnaby Edwards, Colin Newman
• Monsters - Paul Kasey, Karl Greenwood, Ken Hosking, Ruari Mears, Adam Sweet, Elen Thomas

Music crew

• With Melanie Pappenheim, Gary Williams
• Music by Murray Gold
• Original Theme Music by Ron Grainer
• Conducted by Ben Foster
• BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
  • Leader - Lesley Hatfield
  • Senior Producer - Tim Thorne
  • Orchestra Manager - Byron Jenkins
  • Chorus Manager - Osian Rowlands
  • Band - Adam Goldsmith, Ivor Talbot, Steve McManus, Jonathan Atkinson

Crew

• Producer - Paul Bullock
• Director - Rhodri Huw
• With thanks to Wales Millennium Centre
• Costume - Angela Jones, Millennium FX
• Wardrobe - Judith Jones
• Make Up - Allison Sing, Roseann Samuel
• Front of House Sound - AB Acoustics
• OB Facilities - BBC Wales
• Engineering Managers - John Eynon, Hugh Davison
• Autocue - Delyth Davies
• OB Sound - Keith Thomas
• Cameras - Mike Goodman, John Archer, David Brice, David Gopsill, Jon Gout, Geof Greenslade, Dogan Halil, Chris Hatcher, Paul Morris, Wayne Ratcliffe, Nigel Thomas
• Show Caller - Kate Salberg
• Floor Manager - Richard Wyn Jones
• Assistant Floor Managers - Robert Light, Adrian Jones
• Lighting Programmer - Stuart Porter
• Lighting Technician - Peter Lambert
• Set - Gold Hill Productions
• Video Screen
  • Director - Rhian Williams
  • Vision Mixer - Llinos Metcalf
  • VT Operator - Ian Mander
  • Projection - Anna Valley
• Production Team - Caitlin Campbell, Sarah Cooper, Richard Harrison, Kate Jones, Malcolm Kearney, Lindsey McKenna, Dafydd Meredith, Megan Pinches, Emma Samuel, Martyn Stevens, Ewan Whiteside
• OB Production Assistant - Sian Parry
• Vision Mixer - Alison Bartrop
• Production Team Assistant - Carlie Smith
• Concert Sound - Huw Thomas
• Doctor Who Film Sequences - Matthew Scarff, Thomas Ioannou
• Editors - Dylan Goch, Richard Doel
• Dubbing Mixer - Stephen Miller
• New Media
  • Senior Producer - Jo Pearce
  • Producer - Claire Jones
• Doctor Who Senior Brand Executive - Edward Russell
• Production Executive [sic] - Derwina Burt, Julie Scott
• Stage Director - Denni Sayers
• Lighting Designer - Mark Henderson
• Production Designer - Eryl Ellis
• Production Manager - Jo Marks
• Executive Producer - David M Jackson
• Executive Producer for Doctor Who - Julie Gardner

List of music

to be added

Notes

• After the Questions and Answers section, the Daleks "take over" the Wales Millennium Centre, and prompts its "slave orchestra" to perform "The Daleks".
• Doctor Who: A Celebration was broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales. It took place on 19 November 2006.
• Music and Monsters, the episode of Doctor Who Confidential which aired alongside The Runaway Bride, focused on this concert.
  • The event itself was made available on BBCi that same day, Christmas, via the "red button", through to 3 January 2007.
• A 40-minute cut-down of the concert aired on BBC Two Wales, on 31 March and 28 May 2007.
• Doctor Who: A Celebration might be seen as a precursor to Doctor Who concerts in future years, such as Doctor Who at the Proms in 2008, 2010 and 2013.

Filming locations

• Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (live)

External links

• Official Doctor Who: A Celebration listing on bbc.co.uk