LONDON (Reuters) – Hobbits, dwarves and elves are heading for the London stage in the world’s first major musical of the “Lord of the Rings,” its backers said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
West End producer Kevin Wallace said the reworking of British author JRR Tolkien’s fantasy epic will cost $13 million.<\/p>\n
“It will stimulate audiences’ imaginations in a way they’ve never felt before,” he told Reuters.<\/p>\n
A cast of 50, lavish sets and a full orchestra will help recreate Middle Earth, the mystical setting for the swords and sorcery trilogy.<\/p>\n
The show will be co-produced by Saul Zaentz, the veteran Hollywood producer behind “The English Patient” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”<\/p>\n
It is due to open in London in Spring 2005 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of the complete trilogy and may be put on around the world. I can just imagine the opening number of the Hobbits in the Shire singing Randy Newman’s Short People<\/a> and Gollum singing It’s not easy being green<\/a>. Also the Ents could do a musical interlude of Rush’s The Trees<\/a>, a cautionary tale of tree greed and aggression. Maybe they could even get Adam Ent to do that part.<\/p>\n With the success of the LOTR movies there will probably be other commercial rip-offs, like:<\/p>\n Wireless phone companies will have “Lord of the Ringtones”<\/p>\n Business publishing world with “Seven Hobbits of Highly Effective People”.<\/p>\n Betty Crocker’s: Six meals a day on a budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LONDON (Reuters) – Hobbits, dwarves and elves are heading for the London stage in the world’s first major musical of the “Lord of the Rings,” its backers said on Wednesday.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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