{"id":1599,"date":"2006-03-24T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/03\/24\/as-good-as-gold-lotr-stage-version-is-worth-every-penny\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T01:24:10","slug":"as-good-as-gold-lotr-stage-version-is-worth-every-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/03\/24\/1599-as-good-as-gold-lotr-stage-version-is-worth-every-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"AS GOOD AS GOLD: &#8216;LOTR&#8217; stage version is worth every penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">TORONTO &#8212; Attention, Ontario: Resume breathing. That show you&#8217;ve been counting on to bring in tourists? It just might do the trick. The most expensive stage show ever (more than $23 million U.S.), the musical version of &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; began its world premiere engagement at the Princess of Wales Theatre right on schedule. Seven weeks ago, technical glitches made the first preview clock in at 5 hours. These days &#8220;LOTR&#8221; runs 3 hours and 50 minutes, with two intermissions and a song after the curtain call. It may not be the 3 hours, 30 minutes that producer Kevin Wallace envisioned, but it doesn&#8217;t feel overlong. [<a target=\"NEW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2006603240416\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Attention, Ontario: Resume breathing. That show you&#8217;ve been counting on to bring in tourists? It just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,239,130,69,240,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-lotr-stage","category-old-main-news","category-events-premieres","category-stage","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-pN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}