Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

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Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 1:43pm

www.lotr.com

The creative team is announced on there. Pretty exciting stuff for Toronto.

Akiva

Updated On: 3/16/05 at 01:43 PM

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re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:26pm

The website is certainly making me feel better about the show. The snippet of music is actually quite good, and the interview with Kevin Wallace assuages some of my fears. It seems they're going less for a conventional musical and more like a multifaceted evening of narrative dance, song and speech.

I wonder how they'll stage the Battle of Pelennor Fields.

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re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:30pm

Well I must say that I'm impressed with the site. They may well prove me wrong about not being able to make Lord of the Rings into a good musical. We'll see.

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#4

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:31pm

Is this going to be a 9 and a half hour musical?

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re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:35pm

This website wasn't working for the longest time... I'm glad it's finally back up!

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#6

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:36pm

oh dear.

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#7

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:36pm

If it is, people better bring some cushions and ice packs for the soreness they will feel in their asses after the first couple hours. :-P

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#8

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:36pm

How many acts? I have a large bladder, but not that big. This girl will need a break!

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#9

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:37pm

I haven't seen any of the movies. I haven't read any of the books. I won't see the musical.

#10

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:44pm

That's not very opened-minded.

At the very least, a $27 million musical with a 50+ cast will do Toronto a lot of good.

I'm still skeptical this could be pulled off; however, I've heard that the West End did enjoy a very good stage adaptation of another dense fantasy epic, HIS DARK MATERIALS. Maybe a LOTR stage show will be decent (school groups have been dramatizing THE HOBBIT for years).

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#11

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:46pm

Yeah but I'm still just trying to wrap my mind around how they can make it at a tolerable length for audiences without cutting out some major stuff to a point where the whole storyline has been chopped up.

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#12

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:53pm

I'm sure that they know what they are doing... I'm just going to trust them and hope for the best. I actually might be going to Toronto around that date with my school... maybe I can convince my teacher to let us see it... I Hope so!

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#13

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 7:08pm

any thoughts of this actually moving to broadway?

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#14

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 7:38pm

I wonder if they'll use any of the music from the movie?

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re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 7:40pm

No, they won't. None of the movie's production team is involved in this at all. It will draw its inspiration solely from the book.

I'll be interested in how the stage show will look, sound and feel, since the movies are so definitive (and damn perfect!) in realizing Middle-Earth.

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Updated On: 3/16/05 at 07:40 PM

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re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 7:54pm

I'm glad to hear that they are basing the musical more off the book then trying to copy the movie. Maybe we will get to see more of the things that didn't make it into the movies like Tom Bombadil etc.

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#17

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 8:34pm

Maybe a chorus line of orcs?

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re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 8:54pm

ha that would be awesome!

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#19

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 9:29pm

Oh man that would be hilarious! :-P So has anyone heard of the Lord of the Rings musical currently going in England? According to my friend there has been one going for a while....and I trust her because she is a LotR fanatic.

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#20

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 10:10pm

To make life easier:

http://www.lotr.com

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#21

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 11:17pm

So has anyone heard of the Lord of the Rings musical currently going in England? According to my friend there has been one going for a while....and I trust her because she is a LotR fanatic.

That's this production. They've decided not to open it in London because they couldn't find a suitable theatre that was free, so they're premiering it in Toronto instead.

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#22

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/16/05 at 11:30pm

Three acts, an hour long each. Two intermissions.

At first, I am sure many asked "How the hell are they going to do LES MISERABLES on the stage"? And look how THAT turned out!

I think it'll be one huge spectacle. Unsure of how good it will be, but definitely at least visually stunning. Unlike anything seen before.

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#23

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/17/05 at 12:51am

is it all three books? Where does it go after the Toronto premiere?

#24

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/17/05 at 12:53am

It's a three hour show...each book has been consolidated to a one hour act, as CapnHook stated.

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#25

re: Lord of the Rings: The Musical website

Posted: 3/17/05 at 2:55am

At first, I was like, what are they thinking? But now that I've perused the website, it actually seems really fascinating and I'd be very curious to see what it's going to be like. If it's successful in Toronto, I can see them try to put the show on Broadway. Hmmm, we'll see.

~Steven