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ecsider
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good call FM.
Bring on the dancing hobbits! wait there won't be any.
Darn.
Bring on the dancing hobbits! wait there won't be any.
Darn.
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building babel
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"A Balrog is come!" maybe, but he won't be half as imaginatively staged as the COC's Fafner, I'll warrant.
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donmillsview
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Finally a savior for the damned ferry. It'll be packed with Rochester-ite-eronian-a-gonians headed for the ultra-tacky LOTR at the Princess of Wales.
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andreapalladio
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"Trouble, oh we got trouble,
Right here in Middle Earth!
With a capital "T"
That's next to "R"
And that stands for Ring,
That stands for Ring.
We've surely got trouble!
Right here in Middle Earth,
Right here!
Gotta figger out a way
To keep the Hobbits moral after school!
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble..."
Right here in Middle Earth!
With a capital "T"
That's next to "R"
And that stands for Ring,
That stands for Ring.
We've surely got trouble!
Right here in Middle Earth,
Right here!
Gotta figger out a way
To keep the Hobbits moral after school!
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble..."
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blixa442
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The acne-enhanced 14 year old boys who made the movies so successful generally don't spend $100 a shot on movie tickets, or expensive dinners beforehand. I wouldn't count the eggs from this turkey just yet.
Very good point.
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FutureMayor
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Actually, in my mind the audience for the LOTR is more of the mid-20's with who are like Star Trek fans and would spend big bucks to attend conventions and on memorbilia.
I recall a few years back when the LOTR exhibit made its only North American stop at the ROM Plantarium it was a huge success, mainly from a lots of Americans. I know one group of friends who drove up all the way from Florida just to see the exhibit. When I told them that the stage version was coming to Toronto they said they would be the first one line to see it.
Louroz
I recall a few years back when the LOTR exhibit made its only North American stop at the ROM Plantarium it was a huge success, mainly from a lots of Americans. I know one group of friends who drove up all the way from Florida just to see the exhibit. When I told them that the stage version was coming to Toronto they said they would be the first one line to see it.
Louroz
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andreapalladio
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William Shatner: You know, before I answer any more questions there's something I wanted to say. Having received all your letters over the years, and I've spoken to many of you, and some of you have traveled... y'know... hundreds of miles to be here, I'd just like to say... GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show! I mean, look at you, look at the way you're dressed! You've turned an enjoyable little job, that I did as a lark for a few years, into a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME!
[ a crowd of shocked and dismayed Trekkies.... ]
I mean, how old are you people? What have you done with yourselves?
[ to "Ears" ] You, you must be almost 30... have you ever kissed a girl?
[ "Ears" hangs his head ]
I didn't think so! There's a whole world out there! When I was your age, I didn't watch television! I LIVED! So... move out of your parent's basements! And get your own apartments and GROW THE HELL UP!
[ a crowd of shocked and dismayed Trekkies.... ]
I mean, how old are you people? What have you done with yourselves?
[ to "Ears" ] You, you must be almost 30... have you ever kissed a girl?
[ "Ears" hangs his head ]
I didn't think so! There's a whole world out there! When I was your age, I didn't watch television! I LIVED! So... move out of your parent's basements! And get your own apartments and GROW THE HELL UP!
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FutureMayor
Guest
Toronto welcomes musical 'Lord of the Rings'
Toronto welcomes musical 'Lord of the Rings'
Last Updated Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:59:20 EST
CBC Arts
TORONTO - A crowded Princess of Wales theatre heartily welcomed Wednesday's official announcement that the stage version of The Lord of the Rings will receive its world premiere in Toronto.
Though a packed house has been rare in Toronto over the past few years, the announcement from Toronto's Mirvish Productions drew a horde of stakeholders, theatre subscribers, reporters and politicians.
"Well the rumours are true!" theatre impresario David Mirvish declared at the preview event, referring to the various media reports that have circulated over the past few days and Tuesday's announcement in London by British producer Kevin Wallace.
Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien himself would have been proud of the co-production, Wallace said. Toronto is a place of "genuine fellowship, a genuine sense of community," he said.
"I see it as being this wonderful, rich, fertile ground where we're being allowed to sow the seeds of Lord of the Rings and from which it can blossom and grow," Wallace told CBC News.
Mirvish also introduced other major players for the $27-million show, including Canadian rock promoter turned theatre producer Michael Cohl and veteran film producer Saul Zaentz.
Senator Jerry Grafstein, who with Cohl was involved in organizing 2003's Rolling Stones SARS benefit, said he was "wildly optimistic" that Ottawa would join in supporting the venture financially. So far, the Ontario government has come forward with a $3-million loan to the production and Tourism Toronto will provide $3 million in marketing support.
Casting begins immediately, with rehearsals to start at the end of October. Tickets will go on sale May 15 – about eight and a half months before preview performances begin next February. Mirvish Productions said Wednesday that its regular theatre subscribers would have the first opportunity to buy Rings tickets.
The gala opening is set for March 23, 2006.
Despite worldwide buzz over the selection of Toronto for the premiere (the musical is also scheduled to debut in London in fall 2006) and hopes that Rings will revive the city's flagging tourism scene, some worry that the enormity of the production may lead to financial challenges.
Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre was packed for Wednesday's official announcement. (CBC Photo)
"It's certainly a very expensive show," said Marlene Smith, the veteran theatre producer who helped bring Cats to the city in the 1980s.
The average Lord of the Rings fan – who helped the books sell more than 200 million copies and the recent film trilogy gross more than $3 billion US worldwide – is not necessarily the average theatre fan, she said.
"It seems to attract a younger crowd. I hope they can afford it," Smith said. Like movies, theatre productions benefit from repeat business. It's one thing to pay $10 to see a movie each time and quite another to spend, for example, $100 for each theatre ticket, she said.
Producers are aware of and repeatedly mentioned the risks of mounting such an epic work, calling Rings the biggest, most ambitious theatrical production ever staged.
The Toronto debut will also mark the first time a major production receives its world premiere in a city other than London or New York
Louroz
Toronto welcomes musical 'Lord of the Rings'
Last Updated Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:59:20 EST
CBC Arts
TORONTO - A crowded Princess of Wales theatre heartily welcomed Wednesday's official announcement that the stage version of The Lord of the Rings will receive its world premiere in Toronto.
Though a packed house has been rare in Toronto over the past few years, the announcement from Toronto's Mirvish Productions drew a horde of stakeholders, theatre subscribers, reporters and politicians.
"Well the rumours are true!" theatre impresario David Mirvish declared at the preview event, referring to the various media reports that have circulated over the past few days and Tuesday's announcement in London by British producer Kevin Wallace.
Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien himself would have been proud of the co-production, Wallace said. Toronto is a place of "genuine fellowship, a genuine sense of community," he said.
"I see it as being this wonderful, rich, fertile ground where we're being allowed to sow the seeds of Lord of the Rings and from which it can blossom and grow," Wallace told CBC News.
Mirvish also introduced other major players for the $27-million show, including Canadian rock promoter turned theatre producer Michael Cohl and veteran film producer Saul Zaentz.
Senator Jerry Grafstein, who with Cohl was involved in organizing 2003's Rolling Stones SARS benefit, said he was "wildly optimistic" that Ottawa would join in supporting the venture financially. So far, the Ontario government has come forward with a $3-million loan to the production and Tourism Toronto will provide $3 million in marketing support.
Casting begins immediately, with rehearsals to start at the end of October. Tickets will go on sale May 15 – about eight and a half months before preview performances begin next February. Mirvish Productions said Wednesday that its regular theatre subscribers would have the first opportunity to buy Rings tickets.
The gala opening is set for March 23, 2006.
Despite worldwide buzz over the selection of Toronto for the premiere (the musical is also scheduled to debut in London in fall 2006) and hopes that Rings will revive the city's flagging tourism scene, some worry that the enormity of the production may lead to financial challenges.
Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre was packed for Wednesday's official announcement. (CBC Photo)
"It's certainly a very expensive show," said Marlene Smith, the veteran theatre producer who helped bring Cats to the city in the 1980s.
The average Lord of the Rings fan – who helped the books sell more than 200 million copies and the recent film trilogy gross more than $3 billion US worldwide – is not necessarily the average theatre fan, she said.
"It seems to attract a younger crowd. I hope they can afford it," Smith said. Like movies, theatre productions benefit from repeat business. It's one thing to pay $10 to see a movie each time and quite another to spend, for example, $100 for each theatre ticket, she said.
Producers are aware of and repeatedly mentioned the risks of mounting such an epic work, calling Rings the biggest, most ambitious theatrical production ever staged.
The Toronto debut will also mark the first time a major production receives its world premiere in a city other than London or New York
Louroz
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andreapalladio
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Re: Toronto welcomes musical 'Lord of the Rings'
The CBC must have forgotten that Camelot received its world premiere at the O'Keefe Centre, and that pretty much every musical has out of town tryouts before it opens in New York.
The CBC must have forgotten that Camelot received its world premiere at the O'Keefe Centre, and that pretty much every musical has out of town tryouts before it opens in New York.
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Brighter Hell
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Re: Toronto welcomes musical 'Lord of the Rings'
from the globe article in the other thread....
from the globe article in the other thread....
winter garden part 2?The Princess of Wales Theatre will undergo eight weeks of large-scale renovation, which will include transforming the audience area into a Middle-Earth forest and tearing apart the concrete stage front in order to make it into a giant sloping tree trunk.
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andreapalladio
Guest
Re: Toronto welcomes musical 'Lord of the Rings'
I keep picturing the Stonehenge scene from Spinal Tap.
I keep picturing the Stonehenge scene from Spinal Tap.
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building babel
Guest
Re: Toronto welcomes musical 'Lord of the Rings'
If they're hiring supernumeraries I want to be an Ent! Maybe we could organize an Urbantoronto Ent Rockette Chorus Line.
If they're hiring supernumeraries I want to be an Ent! Maybe we could organize an Urbantoronto Ent Rockette Chorus Line.
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andreapalladio
Guest
Re: Toronto welcomes musical 'Lord of the Rings'
For those of us who forced ourselves to read the books when we were 17 and found them as dull as dirt (ok, for me), could provide a refresher on what an Ent is? Would I have to wear tights?
For those of us who forced ourselves to read the books when we were 17 and found them as dull as dirt (ok, for me), could provide a refresher on what an Ent is? Would I have to wear tights?
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building babel
Guest
Re: Toronto welcomes musical 'Lord of the Rings'
Ents = Big trees that can walk. Though in a LOTR musical, or at least the musical version that I'd write, they'd be a high-kicking forest that linked arms and swung around in a big circle on stage, with the outer trees shedding branches all over the audience as they swung past at great speed.
Ents = Big trees that can walk. Though in a LOTR musical, or at least the musical version that I'd write, they'd be a high-kicking forest that linked arms and swung around in a big circle on stage, with the outer trees shedding branches all over the audience as they swung past at great speed.
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BrianHawkins1
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Re: Toronto welcomes musical 'Lord of the Rings'
I think this is going to be a huge hit, mostly because all my instincts are telling me that it's sure to fail, and I'm usually wrong about these things. Prior to the release of Jackson's movies, I delighted in sneeringly predicting a studio-snuffing mega-bomb of historic proportions, because I just couldn't see the genre and subject matter appealing to a broad mainstream audience. As it turns out I was little off on that one. I assume this'll be no different, though I still don't really grasp why jenny n' joe average suddenly find this kind of stuff so attractive. Especially jenny.
I think this is going to be a huge hit, mostly because all my instincts are telling me that it's sure to fail, and I'm usually wrong about these things. Prior to the release of Jackson's movies, I delighted in sneeringly predicting a studio-snuffing mega-bomb of historic proportions, because I just couldn't see the genre and subject matter appealing to a broad mainstream audience. As it turns out I was little off on that one. I assume this'll be no different, though I still don't really grasp why jenny n' joe average suddenly find this kind of stuff so attractive. Especially jenny.