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Comments on MetaFilter post Lord of the WHAWed, 28 May 2003 20:57:11 -0800Wed, 28 May 2003 20:57:11 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Lord of the WHA
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<a href="http://www.broadway.com/template_1.asp?CI=28555&CT=38">Lord of the Rings...THE MUSICAL.</a> You heard it here first, folks.post:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038Wed, 28 May 2003 20:48:53 -0800adroberdeadlinklotrlordoftheringsbroadwaymusicaltheatremusicaltheaterBy: skyscraper
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Can Jim Nabors be Gandalf? Please?comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496070Wed, 28 May 2003 20:57:11 -0800skyscraperBy: Guy Smiley
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<i>You heard it here first, folks.</i>
No, I didn't.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496075Wed, 28 May 2003 21:05:09 -0800Guy SmileyBy: bradlands
http://www.metafilter.com/26038/Lord-of-the-WHA#496079
Actually, I heard it <em>first</em> from <a href="http://www.broadwaystars.com/">BroadwayStars</a>, which is an excellent professional theatre news headline aggregator site I recommend for any theatre fan. And it was also there that I found a detail left out of the Broadway.com reportage: <a href="http://www.thelordoftheringsmusical.com/">the <i>Lord of the Rings</i> musical's preview site</a>, with a few words from the producers, an e-mail announcement list to track the show's progress, downloadable desktop wallpaper, and more.
Although I'm very, very skeptical about "epic" musicals in general, my immediate reaction to this project was "Well, at least it can't be any worse that <i>Lord of the <b>Dance</b></i>."comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496079Wed, 28 May 2003 21:16:15 -0800bradlandsBy: Hildago
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Gandalf's Theme:
Hobbiton, Hobbit town
Every time I come around
Smoke some weed and party down
In Hobbiton, Hobbit town
Hobbiton, Hobbit town
Middle earth is in grave danger
I am subtle, quick to anger
(Like Willy Nelson in <i>The Red-Headed Stranger</i>)
Aragorn is a surly Ranger
Who always wears a frown
In Hobbiton, Hobbit Towncomment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496082Wed, 28 May 2003 21:22:47 -0800HildagoBy: hipnerd
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Will they have the show-stopping ballad <a href="http://www.badmouth.net/archives/000022.php">The Legend of Bilbo Baggins</a> Preferably sung by Leonard Nimoy? (now with video.)comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496083Wed, 28 May 2003 21:26:09 -0800hipnerdBy: ook
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Hildago, you are soggy, and hard to light.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496088Wed, 28 May 2003 21:41:29 -0800ookBy: badzen
http://www.metafilter.com/26038/Lord-of-the-WHA#496090
maybe they'll use my favorite, "Where There's a Whip -- There's a Way" from the Bakshi version of Two Towers
ah, I can see the orc chorus nowcomment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496090Wed, 28 May 2003 21:50:59 -0800badzenBy: piper28
http://www.metafilter.com/26038/Lord-of-the-WHA#496101
Hmm, so is that where all the inane songs in the book went?comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496101Wed, 28 May 2003 23:24:06 -0800piper28By: Katemonkey
http://www.metafilter.com/26038/Lord-of-the-WHA#496114
I request -- nay, I demand -- that the <a href="http://www.lordsoftherhymes.com/">The Lords Of The Rhymes</a> have a major role.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496114Thu, 29 May 2003 01:42:38 -0800KatemonkeyBy: TuxHeDoh
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<a href="http://www.cincinnatiovation.com">The Ovation Theater</a> in Cincinnati was working with a local actor, Blake Bowden, who has scripted each of the three books to a musical version. Fellowship of the Ring <a href="http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/04/29/tem_ovation_unveils.html"> opened in Sept '01</a>. And <a href="http://www.cincinnatiovation.com/newsletter.html">The Two Towers</a> opened November '02. Blake has since left Ovation Theatre but plans to stage the third in the series somewhere else. I'm sure that this is also not the first time this has been done, but it's the first that I know of.</a>comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496142Thu, 29 May 2003 05:38:21 -0800TuxHeDohBy: konolia
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Will Clay Aiken be available? (I'm thinking Legolas.)comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496143Thu, 29 May 2003 05:38:33 -0800konoliaBy: JollyWanker
http://www.metafilter.com/26038/Lord-of-the-WHA#496154
Wow. That's just going to cause... I can't think of a word that describes what the screeching is going to be like when these (relative) newcomers without even a moderate hit to their credit attempt to cram some 1,700 pages of material into a two-and-a-half hour show. With <i>dancing Elves</i>...
Presumably, they're serious. Presumably, they've no <i>clue</i> what they're getting themselves into - either that, or they are colossally stupid. I can hear the sharpening of poisoned pencils in every newspaper in London...
(TuxHeDoh: There are at least two musicals of <i>The Hobbit</i> that I know of, along with half a dozen or so "play" adaptations, most intended for children, but none of the full <i>Lord of the Rings,</i> which has been - to put it mildly - fiercely protected by Saentz. At least Ovation knew enough what they were about to make it three nights, although it does seem odd that Saentz would have allowed them to do it at all, unless he had planned to musicalize it all along and wanted someone <i>else</i> to take the risk of trying it first.)comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496154Thu, 29 May 2003 06:18:50 -0800JollyWankerBy: Foosnark
http://www.metafilter.com/26038/Lord-of-the-WHA#496266
Badzen, you have me wishing I chose "Orc Chorus" as my band name.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496266Thu, 29 May 2003 09:43:06 -0800FoosnarkBy: aacheson
http://www.metafilter.com/26038/Lord-of-the-WHA#496786
Oh dear me. How awful.
I can't wait to hear the song that accompanies "One ring to bring them all and in the darkness, bind them."
Lordy, at least now I guess all those bad songs in the books will be used. Cue..... Tom Bombadil!comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.26038-496786Fri, 30 May 2003 10:19:32 -0800aacheson
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