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Post by waterhouseemrys on Mar 28, 2006 18:35:25 GMT -5
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Post by Tegid on Mar 28, 2006 18:42:37 GMT -5
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Post by debinoxford on Mar 29, 2006 0:17:59 GMT -5
personally, i am stoked about this. theatre is my first love and LOTR follows quickly behind it. Combining the two in this musical form seems intriguing. sadly i live the states and not in toronto where i can see it. i'm gonna have to wait at least a year before it gets here. sigh. how will i survive?
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Post by waterhouseemrys on Mar 29, 2006 2:32:48 GMT -5
I love musicals, too. I am English and drama teacher. (You probably could not tell that by all the typos I have in my posts! He..he. Well, you have to make time cuts somewhere  ) So, I love musicals and literature. But, I don't know about this. The sets and costume designs for the play look amazing, especially considering that they just did not go and copy WETA's design. I think would be awfully hard to tell LOTR in 3.5 hours. There's just so much exposition in LOTR! I am amazed how well the movies were developed and adapted; I personally just could not imagine cutting it down to a third of the story. How could you choose what goes and stays in the stage play, or worse what character(s) goes or stays? How the score would be like? (Maybe, I have watched way to much Monty Python, but I keep seeing Gandalf and Samuran singing some sort of weird duet. ;D) And the story is so intense; I just don't know how they will manage to do it on stage. If the genres of Sci-Fi/Fantasy/myth and musicals will even successfully merge? However, I would not think T. S. Elliot's and Lloyd Webber's works would ever be a good collaboration ?  And, Les Miserables is such an intense and powerful story, plus an amazing work of classical literature, and Les Miserbles, the musical production, is a brillant piece of theatre and manages to communicate the intensity and brillance of Hugo's novel. (And talk about a thick, detailed book  So , my initial response to the Rings musical news could be off..and I will have to eat dirt ...from San's garden. I would like to see the Rings musical just to see how it is executed, but its very exsistence, I must state, baffles and shocks me. |
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Post by chrystalized on Mar 29, 2006 3:05:09 GMT -5
I am VERY tempted to fly out to see it, it isnt that expensive... but the phantom of the opera is coming to town this summer, so i have got to save for good seats there.
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Post by waterhouseemrys on Apr 1, 2006 18:52:43 GMT -5
Thanks Tegid for the reviews. Finding those must have taken a lot of time, so I appreciate the research. They were an interesting read.
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Post by Danath on Apr 21, 2006 14:12:23 GMT -5
This looks like quite the interesting production, but I have to wonder how they can get it all in in one sitting. Something like LotR on stage has so much going on that huge chunks would have to be left out in order to get it done in 3-4 hours. However, if it came to a city near me and wasn't ridiculously expensive I'd probably go see it.
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) So, I love musicals and literature. But, I don't know about this. The sets and costume designs for the play look amazing, especially considering that they just did not go and copy WETA's design. 
And, Les Miserables is such an intense and powerful story, plus an amazing work of classical literature, and Les Miserbles, the musical production, is a brillant piece of theatre and manages to communicate the intensity and brillance of Hugo's novel. (And talk about a thick, detailed book 
So , my initial response to the Rings musical news could be off..and I will have to eat dirt ...from San's garden. I would like to see the Rings musical just to see how it is executed, but its very exsistence, I must state, baffles and shocks me. 
