Word: ringed
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...SENTENCED. CHENG CHUI-PING, 57, a.k.a. Sister Ping, leader of a Chinese-immigrant-smuggling ring who helped finance the 1993 voyage of the freighter Golden Venture, which ran aground off New York with 300 starving Chinese passengers aboard, 10 of whom died trying to swim to U.S. soil; to the maximum sentence of 35 years in prison, for money laundering, conspiracy, and trafficking in ransom proceeds; in New York City. Cheng, who reportedly arranged the transport of thousands of illegal immigrants from her base in New York's Chinatown, claimed she was an innocent victim terrorized by Chinese gangs...
...ordinary folk who rise under extraordinary circumstances. In this predominantly Canadian cast, the other main roles are handsomely filled. But the show stealer is Michael Therriault as Gollum. Hissing and squealing, writhing convulsively to express Gollum's two warring psyches (the hobbit he was, the half-life creature his ring lust has made of him), Therriault gives the most virtuoso schizo turn since Steve Martin's half man, half woman...
...point, Bilbo, the hobbit whose accidental custodianship of the ring would stoke 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. Rather than a brisk, there-and-back-again jaunt, they are in the 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...
...point, Bilbo, the hobbit whose accidental 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...