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LOTR The Musical! 225

Posted by CmdrTaco from the greatest-hobbit-of-them-all dept.
Blue Stone writes "The Lord of The Rings, is to become a musical, to be staged in London's West End, in 2005, on the book's 50th anniversary. The £8m (US$12m) production has lyrics by Shaun McKenna and music by Stephen Keeling and Bernd Stromberger, while Matthew Warchus will direct." If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd go ;)
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  • Real Midgets! (Score:5, Funny)

    by tomakaan ( 673394 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @02:58AM (#6074600)
    Let's see them actually use some real height challenged people. Stupid camera tricks!
    • Think Dorf. All the hobbits have to walk on their knees... Just like Tolkien imagined.

      Personally I wonder how well Lothlorien will be shown with a matte painting. Ahh the beautiful two dimensional woods, the home of the two dimensional elfs.
      • Think Dorf. All the hobbits have to walk on their knees...

        YOGURT!
        Who hasn't heard of Yogurt?!? Yogurt the Wise! Yogurt the All Powerful! Yogurt the Magnificent!


        Please, please, don't make a fuse. I'm just plain Yogurt.

        Heh... a classic.

    • Re:Real Midgets! (Score:4, Funny)

      by euxneks ( 516538 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:28AM (#6074685)
      tricksey fat jacksonsesss! He stole it from uss! Parts in the moviessss... and we wantss it backs!
    • Maybe not real midgets, but definitely stubby people -- please keep this under wraps:

      Word is, the "Star Wars Kid", Ghyslain, will perform as Sauroman in the energetic staff battle
      with Gandalf.

    • Re:Real Midgets! (Score:5, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 30, 2003 @05:58AM (#6075054)
      Midgets, while once politically correct and even the "medical-ese" term for short stature, is now offensive and outdated - it conjurs up images of days when the short statured could not work anywhere except show business.

      May I suggest as alternatives, "the short statured", "dwarfs" (as in dwarfism, the current medical term, or "Little Person" (capitalized)? These are the current acceptable terms. If you want to learn more, check out LPA (Little People of America) at www.lpaonline.org.

      Note: I am myself a dwarf, being 3 feet exactly at my adult height.

      • Re:Real Midgets! (Score:3, Informative)

        by GiMP ( 10923 )
        Many people feel that the proper name for those who are genetically inclined towards dwarfism are dwarfs and those who are simply very short due to medical reasons (via disease or medical treatment) are midgets.

        Shame, that education on dwarfs and midgets in the USA is based mostly on the Howard Stern Show.
      • I think Harlan Ellison put it best when he said "I'm five foot five. I am a little person. YOU are a midget." Personally, I think the term 'little person' is more demeaning.

        • Re:Real Midgets! (Score:3, Interesting)

          by Idarubicin ( 579475 )
          Personally, I think the term 'little person' is more demeaning.

          No doubt it depends a great deal on context--and it probably has also evolved significantly over time. It's like the term 'geek'. Earlier in this century, a geek [m-w.com] was "a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake."

          Later the definition was expanded to include a more general class of social misfits, eventually coming to mean those socially awkward individuals with a str

      • IIRC `midget' and `dwarf' apply to different maladies. One is a fully-scaled miniature (rarer than the other, perhaps?), while the other has a normal sized head, smaller torso and very small arms and legs (a lot of the folks in Willow were of that type, I believe). I forget which is which, though. Perhaps you know?
        • Actually, both of what you described are forms of dwarfism. The first is Pseudoachondroplasia (pronounced like sue-d'oh-a-kon-dro-plays-ya) and results in almost normal proportions for the head, face, and trunk, but slightly short and stubby hands, arms, and legs.

          The second form that you described more closely resembles Achondroplasia (same as above minus sue-d'oh). "Affected patients have short limbs (rhizomelic micromelia) and stubby, trident hands. Radiographic findings include a large cranium with a
      • May I suggest as alternatives, "the short statured", "dwarfs"

        While I understand your concern, please note that we're talking about Lord of the Rings here. We can't go casting "dwarfs" as hobbits.
      • Dude, words are just words. Lighten up.
        (What? I just insulted fat people? What do you mean now they'r 'gravitationally handicapped? Gee...)

  • All together now (Score:4, Funny)

    by martinthebrit ( 565913 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:00AM (#6074610)
    We're off to see the wizard.....

  • Should be funny (Score:3, Insightful)

    by l2718 ( 514756 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:01AM (#6074611)
    Fitting all six books into a reasonably long show will be hilarious. Think "Reduced Shakespeare Company" [reducedshakespeare.com]. I'm all for it.

    Lior

  • I only say this: (Score:5, Funny)

    by minghe ( 441878 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:02AM (#6074613)
    Papier Mache Balrog.

    I think I'll pass.

  • Casting (Score:3, Funny)

    by djward ( 251728 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:02AM (#6074614)
    "We will search far and wide to find our Frodo."

    Send forth the Casting Nasgûl!

  • First in line for the auditions... (Score:5, Funny)

    by ayjay29 ( 144994 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:03AM (#6074617)
    This [mac.com] guy.

    No, no, awfully sorry that's not quite what were looking for, NEXT!

  • From Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z (Score:5, Funny)

    by Kris_J ( 10111 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:08AM (#6074631) Homepage Journal
    You'll never make a monkey out of me...

  • perfect background music for (Score:5, Funny)

    by Savatte ( 111615 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:10AM (#6074637) Homepage Journal
    the fight between Sauroman and Gandalf would be dueling banjos. Hell, maybe they could even have an air guitar contest using their staffs.
    • I hate to disappoint, there was no fight between Saruman and Gandalf, providing you meant Saruman with 'Sauroman' :) In case you meant Sauron, he never even got close to Gandalf. Read the book, man :)

      All the fight between Saruman and Gandalf happened at the end of second book with Gandalf standing outside Orthanc, while Saruman being inside. It consisted from one staff being broken and one palantir thrown :))

      • Re:perfect background music for (Score:4, Insightful)

        by mccalli ( 323026 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:59AM (#6074762) Homepage
        I hate to disappoint, there was no fight between Saruman and Gandalf

        You think Gandalf allowed himself to imprisoned on the roof of Orthanc voluntarily?

        There was no pseudo-kung fu staff fight as per the film, true, but there was a struggle. It just isn't described in detail in the book.

        Cheers,
        Ian

        • Actually yes. The book does not describe any fight and the whole scene ends by Gandalf saying he knew, his words of resistance had no power. I don't have the original book in english to quote, though. The next he says is describing he was carried on the top of Orthanc. And he says 'They carried me', which would imply things.

  • Where's there a whip... there's a way (Score:4, Insightful)

    by zakezuke ( 229119 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:19AM (#6074660)
    Hey, it worked for the cartoon "The Hobbit" and "Return of the King".

    An epic saga that is much akin to human growth, the adventure of youth and the burdon of responcibility over back drop of middle earth dragons and wizards is the perfect musical material, in the same sorta way that Les Miserables works. Les Mis sorta takes place in a romantised volitile time in French history, people vs the establishment, rocks and baracades. Not everyone's glass of tea, but it's something I enjoyed, even if it's a bit over the top. One thing that is considered a mark of good litature is something that can be enjoyed by all audiances... and The Lord of the Rings is something that can be read a child and read as an adult and still be enjoyed.

    But to this day I still remember the edition of "Return of the King" cartoon, with the Orcs in Mordor chanting, "Where there's a whip, there's a way". While it was a sorta cheezy dumbed up cartoon, that is just classic.
    • Le Miz?

      Le Miz was like a classic comix version of the book, without the literary seriousness of the comic.

      If you look at it as an evenings entertainment, like an Indiana Jones movie, it's OK. But if you loved the book, probably none of the reasons you loved it were in the opera (let's call a spade a spade).

      Basically the philosophical and social seriousness of the book was ripped out and what we are left with is a highly amplified, sentimental melodrama. If LOTR gets the LeMiz treatment, then there's go

  • The Hobbit as ballet (Score:5, Informative)

    by trikberg ( 621893 ) <trikberg.hotmail@com> on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:20AM (#6074661)
    It's not that novel an idea. A few years ago the Finnish National Opera had a ballet version of The Hobbit for quite a while. Proof [operafin.fi]
    • Well, that's one thing I never expected: being moderated to +5, Informative for my knowledge of opera. I guess anything is possible on /. =)
      • That's nothing, the idea was probally inspired by the book's popularity during the 1960s, taking too much LSD waiting around for Frank Mills and people saw little round men in leotards in front of the Waverly.

        For our next theatrical production... It's Beavis and Butthead do Les Miserabls... with the voices of James Earl Jones, "that would suck" as Butt head / Jean val Jean and Gilbert Godfreed as Bevis / Javare "yea well...."

        "I met a chick, she's a protitute, she's got no hair, she's cool"

        "I am the great
    • There was also finnish play version of the Lord Of The Rings (Taru Sormusten Herrasta). Proof [ryhmateatteri.fi] only in finnish though. I missed it on tv, saw some clips though and remember that it was quite enchanting. But I was quite small then (small as in Frodo size), maybe some finnish /.er has seen the actual play?
    • Butler University in Indianapolis was also going to stage a ballet written around the story of Beren and Luthien (perfect material for a ballet, if you ask me). Unfortunately, they cancelled the performance due to copyright and trademark concerns that were brought up. A perfect example of IP law stifling artistic expression...

  • Oh, sweet Jebus. (Score:3, Funny)

    by nurightshu ( 517038 ) <rightshu@cox.net> on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:20AM (#6074662) Homepage Journal

    This is horrible. No, really horrible. Gouge-out-your-eyes and jam-hot-Q-tips-into-your-eardrums horrible.

    I have these visions of Erik Estrada playing Aragorn and Bernadette Peters playing Aruwen and singing "Endless Love" while stagehands softly wave the fake plastic tree branches.

    Once more, I'm left stunned that anyone can still believe in the existence of God.

    • I don't mind buying lemmas waffers when they're only two gold piece. You might call it decicance, but when their onsale for 1/2... i'll buy two bag.... i'll buy too bags... yea!

    • He IS about the right age...

      And it would add a whole new level of plausibility to the whole "Pervy Hobbit Fancier" theme that surfaced in their online diaries.

  • Next on slashdot: (Score:3, Funny)

    by DeBeuk ( 239106 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:22AM (#6074672)
    Huge burning lidless paper-mache eye burns down west-end theater.
    Sauron states he is pleased.

  • Seriously, I read the story title as: ROTFL The Musical!

    Well, maybe it was a bit of me picturing energetic hobbits singing and leaping around the stage. Or perhaps Gandalf doing the Riverdance?
  • This may be Ian McKellen's [mckellen.com] one shot to become a musical star. I can hear him now: "Woops, I did it again - I 0wn3riz3d the balrog!"

  • Hrmm... not entirely insane... maybe (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Lucretian ( 136335 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:26AM (#6074682)
    Well... the first intro that I had to the world of hobbits was from a musical version of The Hobbit that I saw as a kid at a local community theatre that my friend was involved in. This sparked both my interest in theatre, and also my interest in the world of Tolkein. Following this performance, I went on to read all of the books, etc... Anyway, My biggest concern of this new musical is how the hell do you shrink it into a length that people will sit though. I fear this will be a mighty big challenge and that the results might not be so pretty... Time will tell I guess!

  • This means there is not much left (Score:3, Funny)

    by Fuzuli ( 135489 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:29AM (#6074690)
    for us to see the porno version. Sauron will "really" make the middle earth suffer...

  • It's official (Score:5, Funny)

    by Ed Avis ( 5917 ) <ed@membled.com> on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:35AM (#6074711) Homepage
    Lord of the Rings has now officially jumped the shark - musical episode. Next expect to see Frodo's long-lost cousin Bodo and his hip new catchprase 'it's bodocious'!. They tell me that Will Smith will be making a guest appearance as Sauron's evil twin.

  • Tolkien Rolling (Score:2, Informative)

    by BelDurnik ( 127900 )
    I feel that J.R.R. Tolkien is not rolling in his grave over this. It seems to go against what he or his family would have wanted to have done with his works. I thank Christopher Tolkien for editing a lot of his fathers works so that we can all learn more. Are there that many money problems in this family? I would have thought that Peter Jackson helped them out a bit.

    Though I wouldn't mind hearing an opera in Ent that is about the Entwives.

    • Re:Tolkien Rolling (Score:2, Informative)

      by bad_fx ( 493443 )
      Not rolling in his grave? Judging by the rest of your post I assume you mean he is rolling in his grave about this.. But I don't see why. Sure there's a lot of negative stigma attached to musicals these days, but have another look at the books... There's a lot of singing in there. Not much of it made it into the movies, for obvious reasons I guess. But done right I don't see why this'd have the professor "rolling in his grave," he obviously enjoyed adding a musical touch to his books.

      Having said that,

  • I'd produce a slightly different reaction... (Score:5, Funny)

    by shivianzealot ( 621339 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:41AM (#6074727)

    If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd go ;)

    If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd strangle him with my own severed wind pipe as I flood the assembly room in tears...

  • Not the first one (Score:4, Informative)

    by xTina ( 548009 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:46AM (#6074738)
    There was a Lord of the Rings musical in Berlin around 1999, played in a circus tent. A couple of pix can be found on this website: http://www.bnoack.com/pict/herr-der-ringe.html
    • It was named "Lord of the rings" but based on the content of "The Hobbit". The quality was good, but it went bankrupt soon. They had a lot of bad luck.

      Yours, Martin

  • It's not so crazy (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 30, 2003 @03:55AM (#6074755)
    What a lot of people seem to be missing is the fact that the original books were very musical to begin with. There's scores of songs in there.

    At Slashdot, I would've expected more people to know the books, rather than just the movies.

  • Not such a bad idea.... (Score:5, Informative)

    by GozerBrothers ( 637555 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @04:09AM (#6074794)
    This is not such a bad idea -- it might actually work out. The Beatles considered doing a musical adaptation of the LOTR many years ago.

    As conceived, John Lennon would have played Gollum, Paul McCartney would have played Frodo, George Harrison would have played Gandalf, and Ringo Starr would have played Sam.

    http://www.hellomagazine.com/2002/03/29/beatles/ has more information (and proves that I'm no troll...)

    If well executed, a LOTR musical *could* be quite enjoyable.

  • No seems to have (Score:4, Informative)

    by katalyst ( 618126 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @04:20AM (#6074815) Homepage
    posted the official home page. It can be found here [lordofther...usical.com]
    They're interesting in hiring, and apparantly the show will be staged only in 2005, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the trilogy..

  • Silmarillion opera (Score:4, Interesting)

    by OldBus ( 596183 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @04:26AM (#6074831)
    I'm not convinced by 'LOTR: The Musical', but I think some of the stories in the Silmarillion are very suitable for opera. For example, Beren & Luthien and a cut-down version of Turin Turamber. They are short stories with lots of drama & emotion and, of course, plenty of tragedy.

  • Der Ring des Nibelungen (Score:4, Interesting)

    by atomicdragon ( 619181 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @04:29AM (#6074836)
    This would only make sense since an influence of LOTR was Wagner's opera Ring Cycle with a summary here [bigchalk.com]. Both are based on Norse mythology and there are many similarities including both deal with the destruction of a powerful,cursed ring that everyone wants. The linked website lists some more similarities. The LOTR musical has the possibility of being good, but I doubt it will rival the original.
    • his would only make sense since an influence of LOTR was Wagner's opera Ring Cycle. Both are based on Norse mythology

      Well, the latter part is certainly true -- they are based on the same myths. But according to a biography of Tolkien that I've read, he detested Wagner's works as a betrayal of the meaning of the legends.

  • Anyone remember the 1976 animated Hobbit? As I remember from my youth, they had actually produced a decent number of songs with music set to the original lyrics for the songs/poems in the text. It was kind of a shame that they couldn't do the same for LoTR, and instead resorted to that horrid soundtrack.

    Part of what made the Hobbit work was that the music conceivably corresponded to the "time period" of the story - a sort of renaissance style music in some cases. And the orcs had a downright thrilling cho

  • Lord of the Rings Symphony (Score:3, Informative)

    by oever ( 233119 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @04:43AM (#6074868) Homepage
    Check out the excellent symphony by Johan de Meij [euronet.nl].

    Here [fenk.wau.nl]'s an amateur performance of it.

  • Web site (Score:5, Informative)

    by f97magu ( 312756 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @04:44AM (#6074875)
    http://www.thelordoftheringsmusical.com/ [thelordoft...usical.com]

  • too bad (Score:2, Funny)

    by dolson ( 634094 )
    LOTR as a musical? Who wants to see that?

    Now if this were Monty Python and the Holy Grail as a musical, *that* would be different.

  • Unbelievable (Score:2, Insightful)

    by pguerra1 ( 533574 )
    What a sad day for Tolkien fans. This is a farce on the order of the Simpsons: "Stop this Planet Of the Apes I want to get off!" "I hate every ape I see, From Chimpan A to Chimpan Z, Now you finally made a monkey out of me."
  • I'd hammer in the morning,
    I'd hammer in the evening,
    All over this a land.

    I'd hammer out danger,
    I'd hammer out a warning,
    I'd hammer out love between Dwarves and Elves
    All over this land!
  • Here it is... the infamous Ballard of Bilbo Baggins, performed by Leonard Nimoy. Here's where I found it, plus my mirror. It's in QuickTime, and a mere 4MB. The video has Nimoy singing with a bunch of women dancing around him. Heh...

    http://www.ussjoshua.org/bbaggins.mov [ussjoshua.org]

    my mirror (same file, zipped) [centurytel.net]

  • FILK - the musical (Score:4, Funny)

    by hrieke ( 126185 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @07:10AM (#6075305) Homepage
    Here ya all go [google.com]

    RING TIME FOR FRODO
    Lyrics (C) 2001 by Terence Chua
    (to the tune of "Springtime for Hitler" by Mel Brooks)

    Middle Earth was having trouble
    When we start our story
    Sauron had awakened
    To restore his former glory
    So in Hobbiton
    We looked there and found
    The way to stop that evil sod
    That wants to grind us down
    And now it's

    Ring time for Frodo and Company
    We're setting out on the march
    Journeying through perpetual gloom
    Seeking to find the Cracks of Doom!

    Ring time for Frodo and Company
    Ring wraiths are hot on our tails
    Ring time for Frodo and Company
    Watch out Mordor, we're hitting the trail!

    (spoken)
    Just a word of sage advice - bashing Balrogs isn't nice!
    Life in darkness can't be finer - when you are a Nazgul rider!

    (cue dance number)

    Ring time for Frodo and Company
    (sound of bells ringing)
    Questing's the best thing for fun
    (sound of hoofbeats and clashing of swords)
    Searching through dark and dusty tombs
    (sound of screams falling into a dark abyss)
    Finding our way through Khazad-dum!

    Ring time for Frodo and Company
    New friends to meet on our way
    Ring time for Frodo and Company
    And soon we'll be saving
    We're gonna be saving
    You know we'll be saving the day!

    --------

    Don't hurt me.

    ----------
    Terence Chua khaos@tim.org
    WWW: http://www.khaosworks.org
    KhaOS@TinyTIM: telnet://yay.tim.org:5440
    "The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us will go to the stars."

  • Will this [nationallampoon.com] be added to the musical score! Maybe they can even get Leonard Nimoy to sing it!

  • They should get these guys... (Score:3, Informative)

    by X86Daddy ( 446356 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @08:19AM (#6075808) Journal
    The Lords of the Rhymes [lordsoftherhymes.com] do a good Hobbit Gangsta Rap routine. Watch their video; I'm not kidding.

  • Not aimed at /. (Score:3, Interesting)

    by grantsellis ( 537978 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @08:28AM (#6075885) Homepage
    About a third the comments seem to be "that's good," LOTR has music in it.

    No! This is the musical genre. Think Gilbert and Sulivan, Oklahoma and, at its most serious, Les Miserables.

    Musical is not serious music. That is reserved for Opera. That is why you have people dying all over the place and 6 hour playing times for opera.

    I know people have said, "LOTR has music in it. Now we'll hear it." Forget it. Think of the practical reasons against it. They'll be taking the 6 hour plot of the movie and chopping it down to two hours, music included. Chances are it will be the Cats treatment.

    This is not to say it will be bad, but fans of the book are definitely not its intended audience. Fans of the movie are probably its intended audience.

    The earlier posts were right. Simirilion and LOTR need opera. They're serious and deserve a serious genre.

    Never mind. Forget that. I want to see Pippin get a girlfriend (musical comedy), Sauron (played by a baritone wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with a red eye) howl out an opening solo, and who could miss the Nazgul chorus?

    Good heavens! The article mentions The Graduate as one of the songwriters' credits. "Here's to you Frodo Baggin's sir ..."
  • If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd go ;)

    With a big fuck-off gun, I hope...

  • A few song lyrics (Score:4, Funny)

    by nightsweat ( 604367 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @09:01AM (#6076239)
    Allright let's hear them. Who's got some proposed songs for the show?

    Who can burn the Shire, fill us all with fear?
    Burn down all the villages and then pee in our beer?
    The Saru-man can. Yes, the Saru-man can.

    The Saru-man can 'cause he mixes it with mud and makes an army of orcs.

  • "The Hobbit" stage play: a warning (Score:3, Interesting)

    by superflippy ( 442879 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @09:10AM (#6076335) Homepage Journal
    Around Christmas of 2000, I went to go see a stage production of "The Hobbit" in London. It was one of the worst plays I've ever seen. I think their mistake was trying to portray the entire journey as literally as possible on the stage. The actors were running around like crazy, trying to keep up with the moving scenery and costume changes. As a result, most of their lines were shouted so you could hear them as they dashed from place to place. If I hadn't known the story well beforehand, I would've had no idea who the characters were, what they were doing, and why.

    During intermission, I asked a couple of locals (I'm not from England) whether this was one of the "pantomime" plays I'd heard so much about. They laughed and said no, but it might as well be.

    Having seen this bomb, I am skeptical that a quality stage version of LOTR can be done. The only way it's going to work is if they pick a part of the story to tell rather than the whole thing, and let the characters really shine through instead of being held hostage to the costumes and scenery.

  • Unlikely but true (Score:2, Interesting)

    by RoboSchro ( 466813 )
    I must admit I'm not looking forward to this one... but what do I know? I saw a musical version of Plan Nine From Outer Space in Kansas City, and that was bloody brilliant. Had an actor hiding his face a la Bela Lugosi and everything.
  • Its difficult to cram the novel into the eight hour theatrical release. What can they do in a three hour play?

  • There is something seriously wrong... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by !Xabbu ( 1769 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @09:32AM (#6076556) Homepage
    ...with creating a musical from LOTR. How can you put a very dark and dire storyline to music?? Sure it will be very much like Opera, but my god. Its just... wrong...

  • someone has to say it: (Score:3, Funny)

    by MORTAR_COMBAT! ( 589963 ) on Friday May 30, 2003 @09:37AM (#6076602)
    Me: "Honey, you know how you're always saying that I never take you to musicals?"

    My wife: "Uh... yeah... I guess so..."

    Me: "Well to show you how much I love you, I bought us two tickets to a musical tonight."

    My wife: "You're so wonderful!"

    Me: "OK. Instead of your normal evening attire, but on this cloak..."
  • Why am I reminded of "What's Opera Doc?"?

    Kill the hobbits, kill the HOBbits, kill the HOBbitssss!

  • Winter for Celeborn and Ents!

    (with apologies to Mel Brooks)

  • it's going to be based on The Hobbit. My lord, you ever read it? There's enough songs in there to make a musical.
  • Yours truly played Gandalf in a musical production of The Hobbit for primary school. It had its moments, though they gave most of Gandalf's action scenes to Bilbo, who also managed to kill Smaug as I recall. Busy little hobbit.

    Should I have put a spoiler warning there?
  • This was done by Mad Magazine [warnerbros.com] in 1979 [collectmad.com].

    About the only thing I remember from it is (to the tune of Barry Manilow's I Write the Songs):

    "I am Frodo... and I've got the RRRIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!!!!"

    Garg
  • If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd go ;)

    So would I... With a cohort of mobsters. There are some things that should be forgotten.

    Of course you know what this whole thing will do to the rumors of Frodo, Sam, and Gollum's love triangle...

  • For those who didn't know about it, the MIT Musical Theatre Guild [mit.edu] staged an original musical version of the Star Wars trilogy. Well, IV through VI are written but we've only staged Episode IV at this point... we're hoping to do Empire in 2005 or 2006. Don't forget to put it on your calendars :-)

    There's not much about it on the main MTG page because it's a past show, but two good reviews appeared in the Cambridge Chronicle [townonline.com] and the Boston Phoenix [bostonphoenix.com].

    [It was worth nearly all the work just to hear C3PO (No

  • If you had been reading this article [aintitcool.com] in Ain't It Cool News [aintitcool.com] you would have known that.
  • This is the funniest bit of LOTR stuff I've seen in a while. So why isn't it listed as being funny?
  • Are they going to use any Zeppelin?

    "In the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair, but Gollum and the Evil One crept up and slipped away with her..."
  • Pippin: The orcs are very, very frightening me!
    Merry: Oh help my Gandalf!
    Sam: Oh help my Gandalf!
    Frodo: Oh help me Gandalf please, oh please, oh pleeeeeease!
    Gandalf: Oh my little Hobbits, short and stout, please do not worry, please do not shout!
    Gandalf: The orcs we will slay while the company's true!
    Aragorn: Oh Gimli, slay another orc, please do!

    -Teckla
  • Reservoir Dogs-- On Ice!
    The Godfather-- On Ice!
    Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid-- On Ice!
    Tango & Cash-- On Ice!
    Willow-- On Ice!
    The Iceman...

    ahh, I got nothing.

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