Kevin Wallace, one of the producers of the LotR musical currently playing in Toronto, confirmed that the stage show will open in London in 2007. More information can be found in this article at Backstage, in which Wallace also talks about critical reaction to the production.
There was an item on the LotR stage show in Toronto on the BBC’s Breakfast news programme last week which can be viewed on the BBC website along with an article by journalist Lee Carter.
There are also articles about the show in The Times and The Guardian newspapers.
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Calendar Live has a review of the LotR stage show in Toronto, considering the effect of the show’s budget, the quality of the adaptation and the storytelling, and a comparison with Peter Jackson’s films, as well as the music of the three-and-a-half hour stage show.
Critics are split about the opening performance of the theatrical extravaganza of ‘The Lord of the Rings’. It opened last night in Toronto, Canada. While one reviewer was “bored” with the apparent lack of spectacular theatre effects, and another decried the loss of character development to other aspects of the play, J.R.R.Tolkien’s granddaughter Rachel Tolkien, however, said, “Everything that, to me, is the most important and most moving in the books is on the stage.”
See the full article at CBC.
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