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LOTR The Musical!
Blue Stone writes "The Lord of The Rings, is to become a musical, to be staged in London's West End, in 2005, on the book's 50th anniversary. The £8m (US$12m) production has lyrics by Shaun McKenna and music by Stephen Keeling and Bernd Stromberger, while Matthew Warchus will direct." If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on
stage, I'd go ;)
Let's see them actually use some real height challenged people. Stupid camera tricks!
We're off to see the wizard.....
Papier Mache Balrog.
I think I'll pass.
...um...like...a sig...
"We will search far and wide to find our Frodo."
Send forth the Casting Nasgûl!
This guy.
No, no, awfully sorry that's not quite what were looking for, NEXT!
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You'll never make a monkey out of me...
the fight between Sauroman and Gandalf would be dueling banjos. Hell, maybe they could even have an air guitar contest using their staffs.
This is horrible. No, really horrible. Gouge-out-your-eyes and jam-hot-Q-tips-into-your-eardrums horrible.
I have these visions of Erik Estrada playing Aragorn and Bernadette Peters playing Aruwen and singing "Endless Love" while stagehands softly wave the fake plastic tree branches.
Once more, I'm left stunned that anyone can still believe in the existence of God.
They that would sacrifice their
Huge burning lidless paper-mache eye burns down west-end theater.
Sauron states he is pleased.
Reality has a notoriously liberal bias -- Stephen Colbert
This may be Ian McKellen's one shot to become a musical star. I can hear him now: "Woops, I did it again - I 0wn3riz3d the balrog!"
Sentimentality is merely the Bank Holiday of cynicism.
- Oscar Wilde
for us to see the porno version. Sauron will "really" make the middle earth suffer...
Lord of the Rings has now officially jumped the shark - musical episode. Next expect to see Frodo's long-lost cousin Bodo and his hip new catchprase 'it's bodocious'!. They tell me that Will Smith will be making a guest appearance as Sauron's evil twin.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd go ;)
If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd strangle him with my own severed wind pipe as I flood the assembly room in tears...
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
Several plans have been mooted but it is felt that creating some of the proper environments for a space based show (ie a vacuum) may be detrimental to the health of the audience. Promoters were concerned that killing the audience may harm ticket sales and impact mechandising and so are unlike ly to proceed.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Well, that's one thing I never expected: being moderated to +5, Informative for my knowledge of opera. I guess anything is possible on /. =)
This post is free (as in cheese in a mousetrap).
Keanau: "WHOA!"
Welsh Choir: "WHOA!" "WHOA!"
LOTR as a musical? Who wants to see that?
Now if this were Monty Python and the Holy Grail as a musical, *that* would be different.
That's nothing, the idea was probally inspired by the book's popularity during the 1960s, taking too much LSD waiting around for Frank Mills and people saw little round men in leotards in front of the Waverly.
For our next theatrical production... It's Beavis and Butthead do Les Miserabls... with the voices of James Earl Jones, "that would suck" as Butt head / Jean val Jean and Gilbert Godfreed as Bevis / Javare "yea well...."
"I met a chick, she's a protitute, she's got no hair, she's cool"
"I am the great corn holio, I need freedom for my bunghole"
"Shut up buttmunch, no posers in our revolution"
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Here ya all go
RING TIME FOR FRODO
Lyrics (C) 2001 by Terence Chua
(to the tune of "Springtime for Hitler" by Mel Brooks)
Middle Earth was having trouble
When we start our story
Sauron had awakened
To restore his former glory
So in Hobbiton
We looked there and found
The way to stop that evil sod
That wants to grind us down
And now it's
Ring time for Frodo and Company
We're setting out on the march
Journeying through perpetual gloom
Seeking to find the Cracks of Doom!
Ring time for Frodo and Company
Ring wraiths are hot on our tails
Ring time for Frodo and Company
Watch out Mordor, we're hitting the trail!
(spoken)
Just a word of sage advice - bashing Balrogs isn't nice!
Life in darkness can't be finer - when you are a Nazgul rider!
(cue dance number)
Ring time for Frodo and Company
(sound of bells ringing)
Questing's the best thing for fun
(sound of hoofbeats and clashing of swords)
Searching through dark and dusty tombs
(sound of screams falling into a dark abyss)
Finding our way through Khazad-dum!
Ring time for Frodo and Company
New friends to meet on our way
Ring time for Frodo and Company
And soon we'll be saving
We're gonna be saving
You know we'll be saving the day!
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Don't hurt me.
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Terence Chua khaos@tim.org
WWW: http://www.khaosworks.org
KhaOS@TinyTIM: telnet://yay.tim.org:5440
"The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us will go to the stars."
III.IIVIVIXIIVIVIIIVVIIIIXVIIIXIIIIIIIIVIIIIVVIII
Who can burn the Shire, fill us all with fear?
Burn down all the villages and then pee in our beer?
The Saru-man can. Yes, the Saru-man can.
The Saru-man can 'cause he mixes it with mud and makes an army of orcs.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
Me: "Honey, you know how you're always saying that I never take you to musicals?"
My wife: "Uh... yeah... I guess so..."
Me: "Well to show you how much I love you, I bought us two tickets to a musical tonight."
My wife: "You're so wonderful!"
Me: "OK. Instead of your normal evening attire, but on this cloak..."
MORTAR COMBAT!