While the world waits for the final installment in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy ("The Return of the King" is due Dec. 17), producers are at work on a stage version.
The world's first major musical of the "Lord of the Rings" will feature a cast of 50, lavish sets and a full orchestra - at a price tag of $13 million.
If we've learned nothing from the respective film versions of the book by Ralph Bakshi and Peter Jackson, it's that to adapt LOTR properly you need hours and hours and hours to tell the story. Unless the producers of this stage version are planning something of Wagnerian dimensions, I can't see this working very well.
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1 - murphy
umm..yeah.
It ain't the Lion King
2 - Phillip Winn
I was surprised when I first that The Lion King was on Broadway. Isn't that a Disney movie? But you're right, at least TLK was a musical to begin with...
3 - James Russell
And it wasn't a thousand-odd pages long, either...
4 - Phillip Winn
It seemed like it. Sorry, I wasn't really a fan. :)