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Legend
A sign of the Apocalypse? Breaking of the Seventh Seal?
A singularly bad idea that no one in his right mind would attempt?
Well, folks in Toronto will be able to see it first to confrim the end is nigh.
From today's version of the Toronto Star:
David and Ed Mirvish are expected to announce at a news conference tomorrow morning they will be joining forces with producers Kevin Wallace, Saul Zaentz and Michael Cohl to present the world premiere of The Lord of the Rings, the $27 million stage musical based on J.R.R. Tolkien's world-famous trilogy.
The plan is to open the show at the Princess of Wales Theatre with an all-Canadian cast on March 23, 2006. It is assumed the show's final destination will be London's West End, where it has been touted over the past two years as the production that would prove to be the most expensive and elaborate show ever seen in England.
Reports of this potential project have circulated through the Toronto theatre scene for months now, but it wasn't until last night that the parties involved sat down here and put together the final pieces for what will surely be the biggest theatrical event in this city's history.
Director Matthew Warchus is a two-time Tony nominee, who directed both the London and Broadway productions of the smash hit Art and has a unique vision of the show.
"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. As a result, we will be presenting a hybrid of text, physical theatre, music and spectacle never previously seen on this scale."
More on this impending sacrilege can be read here
RPG connection? LARPers who fancy they can sing will be auditioning like there's no tomorrow. (Mods: Move when you've had enough).
A singularly bad idea that no one in his right mind would attempt?
Well, folks in Toronto will be able to see it first to confrim the end is nigh.
From today's version of the Toronto Star:
David and Ed Mirvish are expected to announce at a news conference tomorrow morning they will be joining forces with producers Kevin Wallace, Saul Zaentz and Michael Cohl to present the world premiere of The Lord of the Rings, the $27 million stage musical based on J.R.R. Tolkien's world-famous trilogy.
The plan is to open the show at the Princess of Wales Theatre with an all-Canadian cast on March 23, 2006. It is assumed the show's final destination will be London's West End, where it has been touted over the past two years as the production that would prove to be the most expensive and elaborate show ever seen in England.
Reports of this potential project have circulated through the Toronto theatre scene for months now, but it wasn't until last night that the parties involved sat down here and put together the final pieces for what will surely be the biggest theatrical event in this city's history.
Director Matthew Warchus is a two-time Tony nominee, who directed both the London and Broadway productions of the smash hit Art and has a unique vision of the show.
"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. As a result, we will be presenting a hybrid of text, physical theatre, music and spectacle never previously seen on this scale."
More on this impending sacrilege can be read here
RPG connection? LARPers who fancy they can sing will be auditioning like there's no tomorrow. (Mods: Move when you've had enough).
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