Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1981 compilation album by Jeff Wayne, highlights of the 1978 concept album, retelling the story of "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells. It was released by Columbia Records. In order to cater to casual consumers who liked the music of "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds" but did not want to sit through all the dialogue, Columbia Records issued a single-disc abridged version. It focused on the
The War of the Worlds (radio drama) 24, he was assigned to adapt "The War of the Worlds" for broadcast the following Sunday night. Tuesday night, 36 hours before rehearsals were to begin, Koch telephoned Houseman in what the producer characterized as "deep distress". Koch said he could not make "The War of the Worlds" interesting or credible as a radio play, a conviction echoed by his secretary Anne Froelick, a typist and aspiring writer whom Houseman had hired to assist him. With only his own abandoned script for "Lorna Doone" to fall back on, Houseman told Koch to continue adapting the Wells fantasy. He joined Koch