Lord of The Rings Musical- Page 2

[Phantom05]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 1:04pm

Geee, it just makes me happy to see how positive you all are....NOT. Holy Crap people, the ones of you who just make the statement "This show will be bad"...Are just really big morons, and speak of what you, and none of us really know. The thing that I really think is funny, is the fact that probably most of the ones who say "I will not see this show"...Will in fact see the the show several times, LOL! Why don't you just wait a bit before tearing the show to shreads. Just because YOU can't envision it onstage, doesn't mean that it isn't possible....It may just mean that YOU have no creativity or imagination!

Later!

Phantom05

[kelzama]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 1:27pm

Perhaps it will stand alone. Perhaps not. But hopefully, it will encourage yet another generation of people to discover the secrets of Middle Earth, as written by the author and played out on the stage of the reader's imagination.

[mominator]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 1:34pm

5 little words people... a chorus line of orcs!

[HBP]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 3:44pm

I read up on this. At first I was like "wow... this is ridiculous" and I'm not a huge fan of the movies. But I saw a video clip of it's making and it looks actually not too bad. It's not a musical like we think of, with Showtunes and all that. The music was actually appropriate for LOTR. I can't really describe it, but it looked far better than I'd imagined... We'll see, I guess. Anyone know if it will come to Broadway after TO?

[grizzabella]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 4:19pm

I hope my first post came off as more puzzled than condemning, because that's how I feel. You're right about Wagner's Ring Cycle, TheatreDiva, but that is four operas staged over as many nights, each being about four hours in length. I don't think the creative team behind this Lord of the Rings is planning that.
I grew up loving the books, didn't hate the movies, and I'm just wondering how they're going to condense it - or is this musical the first of a trilogy? Does anybody know?

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 4:52pm

Published reports suggest the show will cost $27 million to stage, the most expensive such presentation in theatre history. Word is the cast of orcs, hobbits and wizards will be played entirely by Canadians.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 7:21pm

i want to see this!

[arykahmarye]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 1:58am

A friend of mine was in Canada when they were holding calls for the show, it was the first he'd heard of it.

It's going to be interesting, to say the least. I refused to even see 'The Return of the Kind' after watching 'Two Towers'.

Who knows? If this gets pulled off, maybe they'll try 'Harry Potter' or 'Dune' next.

[justthefacts2]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 9:04am

Interesting idea, Grizzabella. I wonder if it is the first of a trilogy? A longish musical that is Part One could work as well as the movie.

By the way, I am just as finicky a LOTR fan as anyone else here, and I thought Peter Jackson's vision was astonishing. He made a great movie (all 9 hours or whatever that total was).

I saw that clip (thanks so much for finding it!) and it intrigues me. Maybe it's about time to accept that Tolkein's work is a true classic and will be interpreted and portrayed many times over in generations beyond ours.

[bdwybug55]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 10:01am

I'm very curious...maybe this could be the Musical Theatre "Ring" cycle?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 10:32am

The music is totally different from anything I've heard ina musical. It does have an operatic feel to it, but not in the "Fat-Lady-With-The-Horns" kind of way.

It will be interesting to see how it all develops.



(See, Justthefacts, we can agree on something!)

[TheJackal]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 10:40am

i'm curious as to how they'll get the hobbits to look like hobbits. at least in making the film version, they had the benefit of camera angles and computers to make them look little.

[justthefacts2]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 11:18am

Okay, Diva. In the land of Middle Earth, in the Third Age, under the elven stars we can agree on something.

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 11:23am

http://www.pulse24.com/Showbiz/Top_Story/20050316-003/page.asp

direct link to the video

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 11:24am

I think its going to be spectacular, the horse looks amazing and its not even finished!