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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.
40 characters. 3 masterworks. 3600 seconds.
One Man to do it all.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
I'm waiting for Lord Of The Rings On Ice!
I thought for sure they were talking about "Fellowship" the Tap-Dancing hobbit musical in LA...
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http://www.dailytrojan.com/news/2005/01/21/Lifest
"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." (Lisa Hoffman)
Luke, be a Jedi tonight! ...
Just be a Jedi tonight!
Do it for Yoda, while we serve our guests a soda.
Uh, and do it for Chewie and the Ewoks, and all the other puppets
Luke, be a Jedi tonight!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Troy McClure as Frodo
That ought to be an interesting "interpretation."
I seriously wonder (not being involved in theatre at all) how they plan on pulling that off. In the movies they used CGI, but on a stage both the space and number of people is limited. Any theatre buffs have any idea on how they'll pull this off?
Here's hoping they cut Tom Bombadil out of this one, too...
"Hi, I'm Troy McClure! You might remember me from such Tolkien epics as Hobbit 2: There and Back Again, Again and Dial M for Mordor..."
/ Oh, my god - I was wrong:
/ It was Frodo all along...
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
that they could have managed to reserve a theater. :)
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Fellowship! The Musical Parody of "The Fellowship of the Ring." Playing in Hollywood for only another week or two, unfortunately, but hopefully they'll continue it somewhere down the line. We've seen it twice, and it's damn hilarious.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
I'm off to destroy the One Ring... after which all the hobbits will siiiinnngggg...
My pressshhhhious... my pressshhiiiouuusss... we must get the ring backs to ussssss...
Frodo! Frodo! Be careful where you trod, lest that Golum take the ring whilst you nod...
Sam, you have eaten all the fooooood. That was very ruuuuuude! I'm most upset... as your lack of respeeeeeccttt...
To the mountain! To the mountain! The ring will go in the fire, or I am a big fat liaaaarr...
What shall I do? The ring calls me so... I must say NO! I must say NO! Into the fire you go!
My pressshiousss... I will not linger! I will get you and eat his finnngeeerrrrr!
Into the lava, into the lava!
[chorus] We're a happy Hobbit town! Our frowns have all turned upside down!
[curtain drops]
Trolling is a art,
One (sung by Gandalf, to the tune of "One"):
Well it's - one Ring,
To bind,
And hold them in the darkness -
Tonight
It's One, but we're, not the same
We'll just hurt each other
I'm Too Sexy (Sung by Aragorn):
I'm - to sexy for my sword,
To sexy for my shield, to sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts,
And I'm, to sexy for shampoo,
My hair is long and greasy,
But girls don't think I'm freaky,
No way I'm becoming the High King
I'm a Ranger, you know what I mean,
And I'm dating a real hot Elf girl
Oh, an Elf girl, yeah.....
Fish Heads (Sung by Golem)
Fish heads, fish heads,
Rolly polly fish heads
Fish heads, fish heads,
Eat them up - yum!
(OK, so no word changes - but why mess with a classic?)
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
...this isn't going to help eliminate the running jokes about gay subtext between Sam and Frodo.
"Me? Lady, I'm your worst nightmare -- a pumpkin with a gun."
If the 'inspired' music of "the Hobbit" animated movie is any sort of indicator we could be in for a treat!
Why does he have nine fingers?
Toronto is our version of Minas Morgul. Their motto is "one city to rule them all, from the center of the universe, for the rest of time".
Wait until it hits the road...
...with Elmer Fudd as Sauron.
Sauron:
Kill da hobbit!
Kill da hobbit,
With my orcs and flying Nazgul!
Frodo:
Flying Nazgul?
Sauron:
Yes, flying Nazgul!
Let me give you a sample...
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
Do they have Orc's singing "Where there's a whip, there's a way"?
Real SUV's don't have cupholders
It's 5:42 A.M., do you know where your stack pointer is?
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.
... Wagner influence there might be in the staging of it. Regardless of what his politics may or may not have been, the Ring Cycle (Der Ring des Nibelungen) occurs to me as being a way that it could be done. Aside from the obvious comparisons to draw (the length of the thing comes to mind... imagine sixteen or more hours of LOTR musical), I imagine that opera would be a more suitable format than a musical (as other posters have quipped, after this it goes on ice...).
From the first Act:
There is one sword
That he could not shatter
Nothung's splinters
Would baffle his strength,
Could I but forge
Those doughty fragments
That all my skill
Cannot weld anew.
Could I but forge the weapon,
Shame and toil would win their reward!
Sound like something from which the LOTR musical could take inspiration from?
I heard that your library burnt down and destroyed your only two books - and one was not even coloured in yet.
A whole chorus line of Orcs in straw boater hats with Canes dancing around Minas Morgul while an off stage voice sings a (very baritone) ditty about crushing all the friends of the light.
[lights fade as Mount Doom erupts dramatically in the background and immediately fade in stage left]
A drunk Sam and Frodo jaunt through the Shire [stage right to left] singing "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine..."
[qeue Gandalf stage left]
Startled Hobbits quickly turn to overjoyed hobbits and hug the old Wizard. However they are quickly stricken with panic as Gandalf throws the ring round Frodo's neck and tells him to get to Mount Doom.
[the entire cast of Heroes enters stage left]
All the heroes (backed by a chorus of elves in armor and Rohirrim on horseback) sing an uplifting ballad about hope in the darkest hour.
[curtain falls on Frodo down on one knee spotlighted center stage]
INTERMISSION
An invisible Frodo is wrestling with Gollum on the brink of Mount Doom. Gollum bites off Frodo's finger falling into pit, destroing ring.
[Final chorus enters... everyone together... orcs hand in hand with hobbits... and Sauron arm in arm with Aragorn... Saruman and Gnadalf holding both hands crossed in center and spinning]
Sing about good vs. evil
FIN
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He started a business called honest Eds, which is now a landmark in Toronto. Imagine a crummy little store, with a GIANT "Honest Ed's" sign, and thousands and thousands of light bulbs lit up just like the las vegas strip. All the lights turn off/on in the usual patterns. One thing to note also, I don't know if this is true, but one of his marketing gimmicks was to stand infront of his store with a big fist of $1 dollar bills. He would bet people walking by that they couldn't go into his store and buy something the liked for a dollar. Regardless if it worked or not, people did go inside and find all of his great deals.
Treat me like a marketing stat, and I'll treat your movie like a series of ones and zeros
Hey you guys, now you've spoiled it for him...I tell ya, it's getting harder and harder for people who live under a giant rock in this day and age.
"Me? Lady, I'm your worst nightmare -- a pumpkin with a gun."
And when it's "LOTR: On Ice," we can get Brian Boitano to play lead.
-Valiss
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...
-- Even if a god did exist, why the fsck should I worship it?
You recognised the original quote, but not the followup? Inconceivable, indeed!
Frodo of the Nine Fingers
And the Ring of Doom
Why does he have nine fingers?
Where is the Ring of Doom?
How has the thread gotten so far without a link to The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins?
Goo goo g'joob.