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LOTR- "the musical"

Posted: 7/27/05 at 3:14pm

god bless my lesbian moms for being dorks. I just sent them an email about the show- and the demanded a trip to Toronto. VACATION! HERE we come Hobbits.
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re: LOTR- 'the musical'

Posted: 7/27/05 at 3:59pm

You mean - "LOTR - The Theatrical Event" re: LOTR- 'the musical'
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re: LOTR- 'the musical'

Posted: 7/27/05 at 4:16pm

According to the creative team and PR dept., not in the "traditional" sense.

I made the prediction months ago that it would resemble a more conceptual, "Cirque du Soleil"-esque theatrical production, and I'm feeling more confident that I'll be right. How else would you tell a 9+ hour story in a third of the time onstage, except abstractly?
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re: LOTR- 'the musical'

Posted: 7/27/05 at 4:59pm

I attended the auditions in Toronto, and they were seeing performers with "circus training" in priority. People such as stilt-walkers, jugglers and acrobats were taken out of line and seen separately (they also had a different audition date). This would tend to imply that a more Cirq atmosphere was what they were after. I don't believe it will be a "musical' in the traditional sense.
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re: LOTR- 'the musical'

Posted: 7/27/05 at 5:07pm

It's going to be a specticle... which is why i used "the musica" in quotation marks... none the less, I'm thrilled to go see it. I wonder if it will make its way to Bway or even Vegas
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re: LOTR- 'the musical'

Posted: 7/27/05 at 5:08pm

what is LOTR?
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re: LOTR- 'the musical'

Posted: 7/27/05 at 5:22pm

A.R. Bahman (sp?) composed that one, right? I was a little nervous upon hearing that since I didn't think Bombay Dreams was that great, with the exception of a few songs.

I am curious to know what this one will be like, though.
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re: LOTR- 'the musical'

Posted: 7/27/05 at 5:23pm

LOTR is Lord of the Rings.

I suspect that we will end up with something that is more like a series of tableaus (tableaux?, like Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, than a coherent and fully developed story. There's no other way that they're going to get all that plot in!
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#10

re: LOTR- 'the musical'

Posted: 7/27/05 at 5:25pm

Does anyone know if there are any set model or sketches online? I'd love to know what the sets are going to look like.
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re: LOTR- 'the musical'

Posted: 7/27/05 at 8:55pm

I suspect that we will end up with something that is more like a series of tableaus (tableaux?, like Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, than a coherent and fully developed story. There's no other way that they're going to get all that plot in!

Exactly. I think this would be the only way the story could be told without mutilating it. Of course, the cons to this approach is that people who weren't familiar with the story (will these people even bother seeing the stage version?) would be completely lost.

I don't like A.R. Rahman, but I'm very, very intrigued by this Finnish group Varttina -- the music I've heard from them thus far has been hypnotic and precious. And it now a Christopher Nightingale's name has been attached to the scoring, so it'll be interesting to see what they come up with.
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