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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. Real Midgets! by tomakaan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see them actually use some real height challenged people. Stupid camera tricks!

    1. Re:Real Midgets! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Midgets, while once politically correct and even the "medical-ese" term for short stature, is now offensive and outdated - it conjurs up images of days when the short statured could not work anywhere except show business.

      May I suggest as alternatives, "the short statured", "dwarfs" (as in dwarfism, the current medical term, or "Little Person" (capitalized)? These are the current acceptable terms. If you want to learn more, check out LPA (Little People of America) at www.lpaonline.org.

      Note: I am myself a dwarf, being 3 feet exactly at my adult height.

  2. All together now by martinthebrit · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're off to see the wizard.....

  3. I only say this: by minghe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Papier Mache Balrog.

    I think I'll pass.

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  4. First in line for the auditions... by ayjay29 · · Score: 4, Funny

    This guy.

    No, no, awfully sorry that's not quite what were looking for, NEXT!

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  5. From Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z by Kris_J · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'll never make a monkey out of me...

  6. perfect background music for by Savatte · · Score: 4, Funny

    the fight between Sauroman and Gandalf would be dueling banjos. Hell, maybe they could even have an air guitar contest using their staffs.

  7. 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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  8. The Hobbit as ballet by trikberg · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not that novel an idea. A few years ago the Finnish National Opera had a ballet version of The Hobbit for quite a while. Proof

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  9. It's official by Ed+Avis · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  10. I'd produce a slightly different reaction... by shivianzealot · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  11. Not the first one by xTina · · Score: 4, Informative

    There was a Lord of the Rings musical in Berlin around 1999, played in a circus tent. A couple of pix can be found on this website: http://www.bnoack.com/pict/herr-der-ringe.html

  12. It's not so crazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  13. Not such a bad idea.... by GozerBrothers · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is not such a bad idea -- it might actually work out. The Beatles considered doing a musical adaptation of the LOTR many years ago.

    As conceived, John Lennon would have played Gollum, Paul McCartney would have played Frodo, George Harrison would have played Gandalf, and Ringo Starr would have played Sam.

    http://www.hellomagazine.com/2002/03/29/beatles/ has more information (and proves that I'm no troll...)

    If well executed, a LOTR musical *could* be quite enjoyable.

  14. 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.

  15. Web site by f97magu · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.thelordoftheringsmusical.com/