Lord of the Rings musical closing this July

[Sauron the White]

from Estelyn ...

I find it interesting to see that the strongest criticism of the musical comes from a movie admirer who does not tire to remind us that a movie must needs be different than the book - to me, the limits of a stage production are even more obvious, and I am willing to give the producers the necessary leeway

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Lets me fair here. if you are going to criticize something I said please keep in mind that I have not compared the musical play to the movie and evaluated it using that scale of comparison. I criticized the musical play on its own merits and compared nothing in it to anything in the films. I mentioned the length of the books and the films to show that the length of a 3 hour play based on such material was going to have its serious drawbacks. I never said "I hate the play because its not the movie or the book". That is the basis of my repeated criticism of many here who love to compare apples to cinderblocks and then expect the Nobel Prize for announcing that "yes indeedy folks, apples are tastier and cinder blocks are harder".

And yes, I am a "movie admirer". But three decades before that happened, I was a "book admirer" and still am.