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LOTR--the Musical
Jun. 1st, 2003 09:53 pmWord has just come over the ticker tape that someone really is going to perpetrate a stage musical of LOTR in the West End next year.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/showbiz/articles/5018827?source=Eve
That high-pitched whirring sound is the corpse of JRRT boring its way to China. (As a friend of mine said, if you put your ear to his tombstone, you can hear a voice muttering, "Saul Zaentz: we hates it, we hates it forever.")
So naturally I wasted the better part of the afternoon with friends writing songs for it. I cannot share our entire LOTR-The Musical, because much of it isn't my invention. (Suffice to say, The Road Goes Ever Ever On gets about 15 reprises, and there is a scene with a huge crashing chandelier, uh, I mean Balrog, and--in lieu of helicopters--a giant eagle lands, so that Gandalf can announce that The Eagle Has Landed.)
But here is my favorite so far of my own creations, an ensemble piece sung to the tune of "On the Street Where You Live."
( Moria Song )
For the record, we hates musicals. Hates them hates them hates them forever. But even Sondheim wouldn't be able to save this turkey.
Will post some more later, including my hommage to Ms. Claire's VSD, a duet for Aragorn and Voiceover Arwen. Which, not coincidentally, involves Sondheim.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/showbiz/articles/5018827?source=Eve
That high-pitched whirring sound is the corpse of JRRT boring its way to China. (As a friend of mine said, if you put your ear to his tombstone, you can hear a voice muttering, "Saul Zaentz: we hates it, we hates it forever.")
So naturally I wasted the better part of the afternoon with friends writing songs for it. I cannot share our entire LOTR-The Musical, because much of it isn't my invention. (Suffice to say, The Road Goes Ever Ever On gets about 15 reprises, and there is a scene with a huge crashing chandelier, uh, I mean Balrog, and--in lieu of helicopters--a giant eagle lands, so that Gandalf can announce that The Eagle Has Landed.)
But here is my favorite so far of my own creations, an ensemble piece sung to the tune of "On the Street Where You Live."
( Moria Song )
For the record, we hates musicals. Hates them hates them hates them forever. But even Sondheim wouldn't be able to save this turkey.
Will post some more later, including my hommage to Ms. Claire's VSD, a duet for Aragorn and Voiceover Arwen. Which, not coincidentally, involves Sondheim.
