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Who needs memories and moonlight when you've got Middle Earth?
Furry felines managed to dominate Broadway for 18 years with Cats. Now, British producers are hoping a bunch of furry-footed Hobbits can tap into the same musical magic.
Plans are under way for a lavish musical adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which is expected to kick off in London's West End in 2005.
The stage show debuts on the tail end of Peter Jackson's big-screen blockbuster trilogy--meanwhile, the Kiwi helmer has already moved on to another classic King Kong.
The first two installments of New Line Cinema's triptych The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers have grossed over $650 million in domestic box office receipts. Frodo and friends' final chapter The Return of the King is slated for a December 17 release.
In comparison to the franchise's multimillion-dollar budget, the stage production will cost an estimated $13.1 million--still hefty by theater standards. Until now Chitty Chitty Bang Bang held the production expense record at $10.6 million.
No word on how the three-part story will be handled but lines to the lavatory will undoubtedly be long during the epic's intermission.
Casting is expected to begin next year on the production, which has been in development for 18 months. Playwright and lyricist Shaun McKenna will write the book and lyrics, with music being composed by Stephen Keeling and Bernd Stromberger. McKenna and Keeling previously collaborated on failed musical Maddie, based in part on the 1985 movie Maxie starring Glenn Close and Mandy Patinkin.
Pulling the puppet strings are producers Kevin Wallace--formerly linked to Andrew Lloyd Webber's production company Really Useful Group (which produced Cats, wouldn't you know), and Oscar-winning film producer Saul Zaentz, who counts The English Patient, Mosquito Coast, Amadeus and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest among his credits.
Zaentz has owned Tolkien Enterprises and rights to the movie since 1976 and, as such, was a producer on the 1978 animated version of Rings, which only managed to cover the first two parts of Tolkien's fantasy fable.
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