NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The latest on Thursday night’s New Orleans-style celebration of the new “Star Wars” movie by a Mardi Gras marching club known as the Mystic Krewe of Chewbacchus. (All times are local):
9:45 p.m.
Costumed members of a Mardi Gras marching club devoted to all things “Star Wars” poured happily out of a special screening of “The Force Awakens” and celebrated New Orleans-style.
After one couple staged a brief light-saber duel in the theater lobby, dozens of members of the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus hit the street Thursday night for a traditional “second-line parade” – a brass band that included an Imperial Stormtrooper on trombone and a saxophone-playing Ewok stepped off with more fans forming a second line behind them.
They marched into the French Quarter from the theater in a posh retail and hotel complex on historic Canal Street.