Lord of the Rings Musical

If you want to see the Lord of the Rings theatrical version in Toronto, you're going to have to hurry. The show will be doing its' last performance in Toronto September 3rd. After that, the show will move to London where it will open in May 2007. Supposedly, the show hasn't done that well (the Detroit Free Press reports it lost money). One of the the things that may have scared people off about the show was its' supposedly length. Initially, it was over 4 HOURS! The Detroit Free Press reports in the following article (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060813/FEATURES07/608130515/1032) that they pared it down to just over 3 and 1/2 hours. That's a long time to be in a theater though it's incredible that they were able to cut the books down to that little time. It took Peter Jackson something like 10 hours to tell the whole tale in his three movies. I personally haven't seen the show but I did see a review by someone who did who said they did a nice job. I'd like to see the show just for curiousity sake. If anyone who reads my blog has seen the musical, please let me know what you thought of it.

On a different subject sort of, Alan Lee during an interview on 11 August said that he thought it likely The Hobbit would be made in the next three or four years. I hope he's right. I'd very much like to see it.