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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 ;)
Fitting all six books into a reasonably long show will be hilarious. Think "Reduced Shakespeare Company". I'm all for it.
Lior
Hey, it worked for the cartoon "The Hobbit" and "Return of the King".
An epic saga that is much akin to human growth, the adventure of youth and the burdon of responcibility over back drop of middle earth dragons and wizards is the perfect musical material, in the same sorta way that Les Miserables works. Les Mis sorta takes place in a romantised volitile time in French history, people vs the establishment, rocks and baracades. Not everyone's glass of tea, but it's something I enjoyed, even if it's a bit over the top. One thing that is considered a mark of good litature is something that can be enjoyed by all audiances... and The Lord of the Rings is something that can be read a child and read as an adult and still be enjoyed.
But to this day I still remember the edition of "Return of the King" cartoon, with the Orcs in Mordor chanting, "Where there's a whip, there's a way". While it was a sorta cheezy dumbed up cartoon, that is just classic.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
What a lot of people seem to be missing is the fact that the original books were very musical to begin with. There's scores of songs in there.
At Slashdot, I would've expected more people to know the books, rather than just the movies.
You think Gandalf allowed himself to imprisoned on the roof of Orthanc voluntarily?
There was no pseudo-kung fu staff fight as per the film, true, but there was a struggle. It just isn't described in detail in the book.
Cheers,
Ian
This is really a great misunderstanding - putting the LOTR on stage. Tolkien himself thought that his stories never would or should work on theater since the creatures of his realm would just look ridiculous on stage.
I even think he would disagree to putting his stories on film but at least film can create a belivable illusion.
What a sad day for Tolkien fans. This is a farce on the order of the Simpsons: "Stop this Planet Of the Apes I want to get off!" "I hate every ape I see, From Chimpan A to Chimpan Z, Now you finally made a monkey out of me."
"And I for one welcome our new insect overlords."
So, no one should be allowed to generate derivatives of Shakespeare? Or just that it should be verboten to sell tickets?? How about Dante's Inferno???
Are you a future member of the RIAA?? Seriously, the purpose of the "public domain" is to allow people other than the original creator to profit from performing or displaying "useful" entertaining works.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
...with creating a musical from LOTR. How can you put a very dark and dire storyline to music?? Sure it will be very much like Opera, but my god. Its just... wrong...
- Jimbob
They turned the 5-part, 1200-page Les Miserables into a serious three hour show which many think is one of the best musicals ever.
a world in progress...