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...middle of a marathon. "Hopefully," says McKenna, "by the time we finish here, we'll have a very sound blueprint of the show we're going to do in London." They plan a West End opening of LOTR a year from now, then Hamburg or Berlin, perhaps Broadway in 2008. (Wallace has assured his Canadian partners that Toronto will be the show's only North American venue for 18 months.) But the New York City critics coming to see the show this week won't be looking for a blueprint. And McKenna insists, "This isn't a tryout. This...
...foolish," said director Matthew Warchus. He believed it would be "instantly plausible" to do the Ring as a spoof. "It's such an earnest story, and people are so protective of it." Still, he signed on. Then he and musical supervisor Christopher Nightingale chose to break with the Broadway songwriting style and go for an ethereal, world-music sound. Two sounds, in fact: one from A.R. Rahman, the best-selling composer of Indian musical films; the other from the Finnish group Värttin?...
...custodianship of the ring would lead to the War of Middle-earth, plaintively asks, "Don't adventures ever have an end?" For Wallace, Warchus & Co., the answer is: not this one, not yet. They plan a London opening of LOTR a year from now, then Berlin or Hamburg, perhaps Broadway in 2008. (Contracts that Wallace has signed with his Canadian co-producers require that Toronto be the show's only North American venue for 18 months.) But, McKenna insists, "this isn't a tryout. This is the real thing...
...right. If this isn't quite the one Ring to rule them all, it's the real Middle-earth deal. Against odds that would make Aragorn wince, the Ring fellowship has staged a definitive megamusical, nearly 350 miles north of Times Square. For now, Broadway is off-Toronto...
...common trend among new musicals is a by-the-books run-through of all the dramatic conventions of what audiences expect out of musical theater, and nothing more. You have the standard big dance numbers, the corny dialogue, the old-fashioned tongue-in-cheek Broadway humor. This almost maniacal dedication to what is least likely to surprise, confuse, or offend passes as a celebration of tradition at best; at worst, it becomes a tired, nauseating series of in-jokes. No matter what arguments writers, producers, and directors come up with to stick to such “cult of theater?...