{"id":2721,"date":"2005-06-07T18:15:18","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T23:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/06\/07\/singing-at-the-gates-or-mordor\/"},"modified":"2005-06-07T18:15:18","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T23:15:18","slug":"singing-at-the-gates-or-mordor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/06\/07\/2721-singing-at-the-gates-or-mordor\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing at the gates or Mordor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Spamalot and The Light in the Piazza were the big winners at Sunday&#146;s 59th annual Tony Awards. Any early favorites for next year? The next big thing in theater, the musical version of &#147;The Lord of the Rings,&#148; is scheduled for its world premiere in 2006 in Toronto. Previews won&#146;t begin until Feb. 2 and the show has yet to be cast but producer Kevin Wallace offered a preview Thursday night to tour operators and other invited guests at the Renaissance Center. Emphasizing &#147;LOTR&#146;s&#148; human aspects before he mentioned its special effects, Wallace called the show &#147;as powerful and emotional a story as you&#146;ve ever experienced in the theater.&#148; Some particulars: The show will run 3 1\/2 hours, including two intermissions; the music is by Indian composer A.R. Rahman (&#147;Bombay Dreams&#148;) and Finnish folk group Varttina, and there will be Hobbits mingling with playgoers before the show. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001686.html\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spamalot and The Light in the Piazza were the big winners at Sunday&#146;s 59th annual Tony Awards. Any&#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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-HT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","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=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}