This show is iffy... still wondering how well they will do. The music has to be great and the set and costumes have to be amazing to pull it off right. Since this show has a great story and you NEED to allow the audience to see what their imagination draws out when reading the book (look at the movie). I really just think this show isn't one that can be bare with simple set/costumes. I dunno, just my opinion...
I read the books, and loved them, the world you imagined with the great story. I love fantasy books like that and if you can't see it on stage... it won't be too great.
I would read the books if I wanted to imagine things myself, I would see this show as a musical to see that be brought nto stage with hopefully could music and everything else...
We'll see how it turns out, it's definetly a coin toss IMO, could go either way.
jay, who said it was going to be 'bare with simple sets/costumes'? It is going to be the exact opposite of that, trust me. They are totally transforming the POW theatre so that you enter the "experience" the minute you walk through the doors.
It's supposed to be more of an "epic" as they're calling it rather than a traditional musical. The characters won't having an soul bareing ballads, but the songs fit with the story itself. Like I know an exmaple was Arwen singing a lullaby to Frodo etc.
There was a great article that I posted a while ago where they interviewed James Loye who's playing Frodo.