Thanks to all those who wrote in with the bit of bad news about the LOTR musical and an injury to one of its performers. The BBC’s article about it can be found right here. We wish the cast member a speedy recovery and the show all the best.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company productions of King Lear and The Seagull — both starring Ian McKellen and directed by Trevor Nunn — will arrive at the West End’s New London Theatre Nov. 12. News of the transfer comes just before the delayed press performance of McKellen’s Lear, which will be shown to the critics as a matinee, followed by an evening performance of The Seagull, in which McKellen plays Sorin. The Shakespeare and Chekhov plays will run in repertory at Stratford-upon-Avon’s Courtyard Theatre until June 23. The RSC made the decision to postpone the original April 3 press night of King Lear after Frances Barber, who plays Goneril, sustained a knee injury in a bicycle accident. [More]
Fresh off his visit from ‘The Tonight Show’, Orlando Bloom headed over to the ‘Ellen Degeneres Show’ to promote ‘Pirates III’. Take a look at the clips below!
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This may be too little too late, however I now have the clips from Orlando Bloom’s visit to ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ from earlier this month. Take a look!
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Nuradar writes: This past Sunday, May 27 I went to a horse exhibition in Truro, Nova Scotia to see Blanco, the beautiful white Andalusian that played Gandalf’s horse, Shadowfax, in the The Lord of the Rings movies, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. It was a great exhibition with many horses and lots to learn about riding and grooming, but I must admit, Blanco was the main reason went. I was not disappointed. He’s not exactly a large horse, but boy was he beautiful. His owner is Cynthia Royal, who acquired him immediately after filming was completed for all three movies. She gave the audience some interesting facts about his involvement with the movies. For example, Blanco’s nose and lips turned progressively more pink as filming went on. Therefore, they are more pink in The Return of the King than in The Two Towers. Another interesting tidbit is that Blanco was gelded (neutered) after the movies were finished so that nobody would profit from his offspring due to his association with The Lord of the Rings. Also, Blanco’s specialties include riding bare back and rearing on his hind legs. Blanco did have a double for some of the fast riding shots, but he is the horse we see in most scenes. And, of course, Sir Ian McKellen had a stunt double for the fast riding shots.
Cynthia Royal was at the exhibition not only to show Blanco to the public, but also to promote her style of horse training and her DVD. She uses a non-aggressive way to train horses that involves an innate understanding of a horse’s body language. Knowing the horse’s body language allows her to understand and respect the horse’s needs and intentions, and therefore, she doesn’t need to use force or aggression in her training. For more information on Cynthia’s training, visit her website, www.imagine-discoverthemagic.com.
It really was a thrill to see the horse that portrayed Shadowfax in the Lord of the Rings movies. Cynthia’s website indicates that there are some tentative U.S. tour dates for this fall and winter and for 2008. Check to see if she and Blanco are coming to your city.
,img src=”http://img-www.theonering.net/images/frontOB.jpg” ALIGN=LEFT> After starring in two megasized Hollywood trilogies that have taken him from unknown to A-list (“Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Lord of the Rings”) Orlando Bloom is walking away from movies — temporarily. “It’s been an incredible ride,” said the 30-year-old, sprawled across a sofa at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. “And it’s been wonderful but I’m sort of psyched to do something completely different.” Hence, he’s returning to the theater — the London stage, to be exact, to appear in David Storey’s play, “In Celebration.” Sailing straight from London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama into Hollywood’s spotlight was “huge” and “surreal,” Bloom said, an experience that moved him “to go back to the beginning, as if I’ve just come out of school again.” [More]