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LOTR The Musical!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the greatest-hobbit-of-them-all dept.

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 ;)

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  1. Re:Should be funny by SkArcher · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now THAT I would pay to see. The Reduced Shakespeare co make some damn funny work (The Bible: The complete word of God(abridged) being, IMHO, better than the complete works of the Bard)

    After all, the major complaint EVER about LOTR is that it is waaaaaay too long and has to much descriptive rubbish in it.

    A RSC version may actually be watchable :)

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    An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of /.
  2. Silmarillion opera by OldBus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not convinced by 'LOTR: The Musical', but I think some of the stories in the Silmarillion are very suitable for opera. For example, Beren & Luthien and a cut-down version of Turin Turamber. They are short stories with lots of drama & emotion and, of course, plenty of tragedy.