from Bethberry
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Interesting comment here, StW. Which was the musical based on--Tolkien's books or Jackson's movies? I cannot recall reading anything which suggested the musical was attempting to put the movie on stage. It was to be an adaptation of Tolkien's LotR.
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I was not at all suggesting that the musical play was based on the Jackson film adaption. In fact, the producers went out of their way to tell the world that they had not even seen the films. My point was only that it took 11 hours of film to adapt a 1,200 page book. I was using the length of the films as a comparison to both the book and then the play.
Mithalwen brought up the orcs on what she called pogosticks- actually they were some space age sort of crutches. I don't remember them as having any bouncing properties to them. They looked absurd and silly as everyone chased each opther around in sort of a Keystone Cops fashion while they dodged rising and falling elevators and hydraulic platforms. And then we had Saruman in a floor length leather coat looking like the twin brother of Otto Preminger in STALAG 17. That was a wonderful casting and costuming idea
In Toronto, Bormir was Black, Aragorn had charcoal marks under his eyes like American football players and the whole thing was like watching a movie using the fast forward control.