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...hobbits scurrying. Dead men rise from the Marshes (a roiling silver sheet) to make war against Sauron's legions. In the Mountains of Moria, Gandalf battles the enormous Balrog (an Erector-set confection with steaming orange eyes) as the sound effects roar and a strong wind gusts from the stage, spraying the audience with a blizzard of black confetti. As for Frodo, he not only lives, he also sings in the new version of The Lord of the Rings, opening this week at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto...
...stage production of The Lord of the Rings is barreling through a rehearsal of its most complicated scene when the pounding martial music stops, the smoke machines fizzle out and the 40-ton moving stage whirs to a halt. "Joe, are you aware you didn?t die on arrow two?" choreographer Peter Darling asks one of the Orc actors, who today are dressed in t-shirts and track pants. ?Your crutches have to whack...
...preparation for a typical musical has its familiar anxieties: cutting a favorite song, replacing a dialogue scene, finding some extra business for the star. That?s nothing compared to the three-year ordeal of putting J.R.R. Tolkien?s fantasy trilogy on the Prince of Wales stage in Toronto. How to choreograph the great battles Tolkien described? To visualize the dozen realms in the great saga? To blend narrative, drama and music in a 3-1/2 hr. production, and do it all without retakes and post-production computer effects? Most daunting, how to satisfy the million of Tolkien fans whose...
...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 the producers of this stage extravaganza - TIME got an inside peek for a forthcoming story - the answer is: not this one, not yet. After the show's much-anticipated opening in Toronto on Thursday, they plan a London opening of LOTR a year from now, then Berlin or Hamburg. Contracts with the Canadian co-producers require that Toronto is to be the show?s only North American venue for 18 months...
...rather than quit theatre altogether, Dorin became involved in its production side. Benjamin J. Toff ’05, who was a Crimson Editorial Chair, was directing Pinter’s ‘Betrayal,” and asked me to be his stage manager,” Dorin says. “Since then I’ve tried almost every staff position, except light design, because I’m color-blind, and technical direction, because I’m petrified of the table-saw.”Dorin first tackled the role of director last...