{"id":306,"date":"2007-06-14T21:13:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T02:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/06\/14\/bring-on-the-dancing-hobbits\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T22:41:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T03:41:43","slug":"bring-on-the-dancing-hobbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/06\/14\/306-bring-on-the-dancing-hobbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the dancing hobbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">It&#8217;s the most expensive West End musical ever and has been three years in the making, but now The Lord of the Rings is about to open. Paul Arendt enters a world of elves, ents and leather-clad orcs.  Matthew Warchus is looking a little frazzled. It&#8217;s not surprising: after three years of development, a lengthy dry run in Toronto and an unprecedented six weeks of London previews, The Lord of the Rings musical is ready to face the critics. As director and co-writer, Warchus has given four years of his life to the project. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have to worry about this becoming habit forming,&#8221; he says during a break in rehearsals. &#8220;I certainly don&#8217;t intend to do something on this scale ever again.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/arts.guardian.co.uk\/theatre\/drama\/story\/0,,2102697,00.html\" target=\"NEW\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the most expensive West End musical ever and has been three years in the making, but now&#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":[14,239,130,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","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-4W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}