03-26-2006, 10:19 AM
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Riveting Ribbiter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
Posts: 1,767
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And the reviews reach Philly...
Here's one reply to the less-enthusiastic reviewers:
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Originally Posted by Philadelphia Inquirer, Tirdad Derakhshani
Sure, hateful cynics, including yours truly, might mock the very idea of plopping Frodo Baggins, Galadriel and Legolas Greenleaf into some poxy musical. And, sure, critics have given the stage version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings frigid reviews. ("Bored of the Rings," the Toronto Star calls it.) But that don't matter a whit, as long as Tolkien loves the lavish show.
That would be Rachel Tolkien, 35, who Thursday night attended Rings' world premiere in Toronto. At $25 mil, this is billed as the most expensive musical ever. J.R.R.'s granddaughter says the adaptation, by Shaun McKenna and director Matthew Warchus, stays true to the books and is not unduly influenced by Peter Jackson's mega-selling film version.
"The set is incredible, the costumes are beautiful," Tolkien said. "Everything to me that is the most important, and the most moving in the book, they've gotten on the stage."
So, a pox on you critics, and a serious pox on me.
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