The Lord of the Rings

[urnofosiris]

I thought Miranda Otto did a great job singing the lament for Theoden without the benefit of instrumental back up. It would have been odd to have her sing the Houses of Healing song though, I also think Liv´s voice was better suited for that soft song. Hmm, they can both sing. Yum.

[aceivan]

Once I get through the commentary tracks and documentaries on the DVDs I'm going to listen to to the BBC Radio adaptation again. I could be wrong but I though I read about or heard Peter Jackson say he gave the CDs to the actors before they started working on the movies. I'd recommend it to any LOTR fans.



So when is Frodo and Sam Out and Proud released?



Len

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[WebWarlock]

Hmmm... here or the humor thread?

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'Lord of Rings' in Canada premiere



LONDON, England (AP) -- A much-anticipated stage musical based on "The Lord of the Rings" will have its world premiere in Toronto next year, the show's producers announced Tuesday.



The Cdn$27 million (U.S. $22 million) show will open in March 2006 at the Princess of Wales Theatre with a largely Canadian cast, producer Kevin Wallace said.



Wallace had hoped to open the show in London in the fall, but no theater large enough to accommodate the technically complex production was available. The musical is now slated to open in London in autumn 2006.



Published 50 years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien's mystical adventure trilogy has been discovered by a new generation through Peter Jackson's award-winning trio of films, which have grossed more than U.S. $3 billion around the world.



The three-hour stage adaptation will feature book and lyrics by Shaun McKenna and Matthew Warchus, and music by "Bombay Dreams"' A.R. Rahman and Finnish group Varttina with Christopher Nightingale.



Warchus said the show, which has a cast of 50, would combine words, music, physical theater and spectacle to create a production in which the audience is "actually plunged into the events as they happen."



"We have not attempted to pull the novel towards the standard conventions of Musical Theatre, but rather to expand those conventions so that they will accommodate Tolkien's material," he said.

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To paraphrase Stan Marsh. "Dude! What the fuck is wrong with Canadian people!!"







Must be the cold.



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[urnofosiris]

That´s just wrong.

[Hemiola]

That spinning sound you hear is JRRT whirling in his grave!

How could the Tolkien estate have given their permission for this travesty??

[Warduke]

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[Culzean]

Oh, I don't know. Maybe they could talk Tommy Tune into coming out of retirement to play Legolas. He has that tall, never aging, elf-like quality.



Perhaps Bebe Neuwirth could play Frodo?



Nah, on second thought, it's just a bad idea!

[sam7777]

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How could the Tolkien estate have given their permission for this travesty??

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I think that this is their revenge for not getting a piece of the movie (Tolkien sold the film rights to Saul Zaentz in the 70's).

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[seurat]

Ok, I've now seen a promo reel for this, and really, it has a chance to work. It still has potential disaster written in bold letters all over it, but it won't be a musical per se, but a dramatization with music, and the effects look interesting. (The horses resemble an update on what Julie Traynor did for Lion King, for example.) Srill, the odds are it will be a huge bomb, but wouldn't it be more fun if it actually tuirned out to be good? In case it is a bomb though, Saul Zaentz is involved in this, so maybe the Tolkien estate has nothing to do with the project.

"Life's complications and frustrations/they disappear when the music starts playing/I found a place where it feels alright/I hear a record and it opened my eyes/do you remember what the music meant?" - Speakers Push Air, Pretty Girls Make Graves

Edited by: seurat at: 3/16/05 8:05 pm