{"id":25302,"date":"2003-10-13T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2003-10-13T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/10\/13\/musical-hobbits-2\/"},"modified":"2003-10-13T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2003-10-13T15:56:13","slug":"musical-hobbits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/10\/13\/25302-musical-hobbits-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Hobbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Ever since it was announced in London that &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; would be turned into a musical budgeted at $13 million, fans have feared the worst: Gandalf singing a rock ballad, Orcs doing jazz hands, high-kicking hobbits. Well, the first workshop is finished, and early reports are in. Purists, prepare yourselves. First off the director, Matthew Warchus, promises that the show will &#8220;avoid embarrassments.&#8221; Well, that&#8217;s certainly a good start.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Warchus also compares the music of the show, scheduled in the West End in the spring of 2005, to the folk tunes of &#8220;The Lion King.&#8221; Nice. But what about the book? Mr. Warchus won&#8217;t go into specifics, but he says literary license was taken. The novelist J. R. R. Tolkien &#8220;wrote the story like it was history, and that is how we are treating it,&#8221; Mr. Warchus said by phone. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be a different account of events. It&#8217;s sort of like different versions of the Gospels.&#8221; And if this incurs the wrath of armies of fans of the original Middle Earth, Mr. Warchus is ready for them. &#8220;It&#8217;s impossible to please everyone,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since it was announced in London that &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; would be turned into 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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6A6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25302","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=25302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}