Post by LadyTass2001 on Mar 22, 2005 0:34:52 GMT -5
took this off of Sci-fi News Of The Week, just not sure about trying to do this.
Producers are planning on adapting The Lord of the Rings as a musical, slated to open March 2006 in Toronto and come to London six months later, the Reuters news service reported. Producers have promised to go back to the original books by J.R.R. Tolkien and not try to reproduce Peter Jackson's movie trilogy, which earned $3 billion worldwide and garnered a string of Oscars, the news service reported.
"We are ultimately dependent on 50 actors and musicians to tell the story, rather than technology," producer Kevin Wallace said as he announced details of the 27 million Canadian dollar ($16.6 million U.S.) musical. "We are going to have to break new ground. It is a hybrid of text, music, spectacle and physical theater."
The music is being written by A.R. Rahman, the Bollywood film composer who scored a hit in London with the stage musical Bombay Dreams. He is working in conjunction with the Finnish group Varttina. The musical's British director is Matthew Warchus, best known for staging the worldwide stage hit Art. Wallace is producing the show with flamboyant Canadian theatrical impresarios David and "Honest" Ed Mirvish, the wire service reported.
Producers are planning on adapting The Lord of the Rings as a musical, slated to open March 2006 in Toronto and come to London six months later, the Reuters news service reported. Producers have promised to go back to the original books by J.R.R. Tolkien and not try to reproduce Peter Jackson's movie trilogy, which earned $3 billion worldwide and garnered a string of Oscars, the news service reported.
"We are ultimately dependent on 50 actors and musicians to tell the story, rather than technology," producer Kevin Wallace said as he announced details of the 27 million Canadian dollar ($16.6 million U.S.) musical. "We are going to have to break new ground. It is a hybrid of text, music, spectacle and physical theater."
The music is being written by A.R. Rahman, the Bollywood film composer who scored a hit in London with the stage musical Bombay Dreams. He is working in conjunction with the Finnish group Varttina. The musical's British director is Matthew Warchus, best known for staging the worldwide stage hit Art. Wallace is producing the show with flamboyant Canadian theatrical impresarios David and "Honest" Ed Mirvish, the wire service reported.
