Lord of the Rings Musical to Open in Toronto

MitsuMirage writes "Mirvish Productions is hosting the world opening of The Lord of the Rings musical in Toronto in March 2006. Originally planned for London, UK and to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication the trilogy, the musical was moved to Toronto when no theatre was available." From the article: "With a cast of 50 and elaborate staging, the audience will be "plunged into the events as they happen...We have not attempted to pull the novel towards the standard conventions of musical theatre, but rather to expand those conventions so that they will accommodate Tolkien's material." A look is also available at the BBC. We originally mentioned the musical when it was slated to run in Britain.

Comments

Oh come on

[Anonymous Coward]

alright, this is "aesthetically" more ok compared to the tons of merchandising (games etc u name it) but still.... Give us a moments pity!

LOTR was made into movie, fine, good, soundtrack was awesome (i play it regularly) but how about spending some book time with it?

i've seen the movies so much i feel an urgent need to refresh myself on what really happened... and now this? please....wait 15 years?

"No theater available"?

[fm6]

That sounds strange, considering how many theaters there are in greater London. The official line is, "no theatre [was] available to accommodate the massive and technically complex three-hour production". I suspect there was, but the one in Toronto was cheaper. So if the Toronto production doesn't do well enough to justify the expense of staging it in Toronto, the show will never make it back to London.

Boooooring...

[The Fanta Menace]

Ok, it's flamebait, I know, but really...

Lord of the Rings and musical in one sentence? Either of them, alone, is bad enough, but together, I'd rather spend several hours listening to Donald Rumsfeld recite his favourite passages from Revelations...