When Middle Earth comes to a stage in Toronto this week for the world premiere of a musical version of The Lord of the Rings, diehard fans of the trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien could be forgiven for feeling sceptical. It’s one thing to turn one of the most popular stories of our time into an epic film. It’s quite another to bring it to the stage as a musical – with actors on three storey-tall stilts, an Elvish chorus, a set that morphs from woods to battlements to a volcano and a Gollum who sings. [More]
Gollum gosh, the hills are alive with hobbits
March 20th, 2006 by xoanon
