I went to see Lord of the Rings stage show last night at the West End.
It was a bit wank, really.
It's supposed to be the most expensive stage show ever made costing £12.5m and it's certainly impressive to look at. The stage is completely circular, revolves and breaks apart in segments so they can climb and descend. Looked pretty cool. The choreography was great, costumes looked good.
Only 2 things prevented it from being excellent. The actors and the play itself. Some of the actor choices were rubbish, Frodo had an awful whiny voice, Gandalf was bouncing around the stage like a 35 year old and Boromir sounded like Willie the Groundskeeper.
And because everyone's now seen the movies and they were so vivid there's no way you can sit and watch the stage show because the movie actors were so perfect for the characters, you just see Elijah Wood as Frodo, Ian McKellan as Gandalf, no-one else.
Imagine how truly awful it would be if they did a stage show of Harry Potter replete with the obligatory singing and dancing. That's exactly what LOTR was like. You wanted to like it, but it would really be a travesty if you did.
I wanted to see Spamalot anyway.
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I am NOT 35...
for another year.
>;-)
To be honest, i did not attach the two i swear! The actor just looked about mid thirties.
Anyway, you looked cool bouncing around the stage and everyone was mighty impressed with your sweating bouncing body. They said it was almost hypnotic.
LOL !! Just seen this comment about my "hypnotic, sweating bouncing body"...
Impressed, you say...
this is worrying as they were mostly chaps, I believe.
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