{"id":1867,"date":"2006-01-09T13:35:22","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T19:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/01\/09\/settling-the-score-in-middle-earth\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T22:56:57","slug":"settling-the-score-in-middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/01\/09\/1867-settling-the-score-in-middle-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Settling the score in Middle-Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Christopher Nightingale doesn&#8217;t mind admitting that when he first heard London producer Kevin Wallace discuss plans for a stage musical based on J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings, he thought &#8220;it was a really bad idea.&#8221; Of course, Nightingale is quick to add that when the notion was first broached three years ago, it was premised on an entirely different theatrical template than the $27-million show that will have its world premiere at Toronto&#8217;s Princess of Wales Theatre on March 23 (after six weeks in previews beginning Feb. 2). [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060109.wxlord09\/BNStory\/Entertainment\/\" target=\"NEW\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Nightingale doesn&#8217;t mind admitting that when he first heard London producer Kevin Wallace discuss plans for a&#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":[14,239,130,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-lotr-stage","category-old-main-news","category-stage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-u7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","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=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}