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LOTR to Become a London Musical

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can't-wait-for-gollum's-solo dept.

PenguinRadio writes "Sky is reporting that Lord of the Rings will become 'the most expensive musical ever seen in London', sporting a price tag of 8 million pounds and a running time of nearly 3 and 1/2 hours."

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  1. Cant wait for some scenes... by -kertrats- · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Gollum crooning to the ring in his cave...

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    The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
  2. Ruined. by hot_Karls_bad_cavern · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i'm calling it already - they are going to ruin this. Wow, i am really amazed that something like this is allowed. i'm not trolling, but damn who's responsible for this?

  3. Re:OOohhh... give it a rest... by PsiPsiStar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yup. It seems LOTR has cyclical rebirths in interest. It's like the Civil War that way. ... I heard an interesting comment that fascination with the Civil War tends to revive during prolonged periods of peace... I guess us Americans just need our blood fix now and then

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    It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
  4. Scene One by ElizabethP · · Score: 3, Interesting
    [INTRO]:

    to be recited by a middle earthsman with a British accent

    There once was a hobbit named Smeegle
    This Hobbit sure turned rather evil
    He beheld that darned ring
    Yes, that horrid thing
    That made desparate humans to wheedle

    We must destroy that curse
    Nothing could be worse
    Than a crazy wizzard
    With eyes like a lizzard
    For evil, he has a thirst

    I'll take my axe and you your bow,
    And on this mission we'll go
    We'll cross distant lands
    And lend one another a hand
    So let's get on with the show!

  5. Rankin-Bass adaptations were musicals by brocktune · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Rankin-Bass did "The Hobbit" and "Return of the King". Remember the toe-tappers "Where there's a whip, there's a way" and "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"? And that Godawful warbling singer?

    I actually think it could be decent if it's done right. Professional stage people know how to grab the audience. I've been to several Broadway shows that I just knew would be crap, and 30 minutes in, I was swinging my feet and humming along just like everybody else. Musicals have a different vocabulary than film, and they just might pull it off.

  6. Re:Paging Joss Whedon... by ashvay · · Score: 2, Interesting

    (Frodo:)
    I lived my life in Bagend
    Never an adventure to face
    I did not seem so bad though
    We figured that was our place

    Now I've got this ring
    What do I do with that thing?
    I am under its spell
    Gandalf can it be
    It's making me so hard to see
    Its power I can tell
    How it's keeping me
    From aging far less rapidly

    (Gandalf:)
    I see a world endangered
    Nazgul and Orcs everywhere
    I always took for granted
    The one ring would never be there
    But its power shone
    Brighter than I've ever known

    Now we know so well
    Nothing we can do
    We 've got to take it back to Doom
    He works his eye so well
    Suddenly we knew
    Everything we feared is true
    It's The One Ring

    (Frodo:)
    Mount Doom cannot hide
    Must throw the Ring inside
    I'm under its spell
    Take a look at me
    Wandering so helplessly
    I put it on, oh well
    Lost in ecstasy
    Come and claim it back from me!
    I'm throwing it in

    I'm throwing it in...