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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      Midgets, while once politically correct and even the "medical-ese" term for short stature, is now offensive and outdated - it conjurs up images of days when the short statured could not work anywhere except show business.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. I only say this: by minghe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Papier Mache Balrog.

    I think I'll pass.

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

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

  4. 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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  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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

    http://www.thelordoftheringsmusical.com/