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Dateline: 23rd June, 2006
Lord of the Rings to Replace The Producers The Lord of the Rings, which opened in Toronto in March to largely unenthusiastic reviews, is to open in the West End's Theatre Royal Drury Lane next year. It will open on 19th June (previews from 9th May), replacing The Producers which has posted closing notices for 6th January. Tickets go on sale on 2nd July, 2006. It was originally planned that the show should have its UK and European premiere at the Dominion Theatre but its current occpant, We Will Rock You, despite earlier announcing its closure, has now extended well into 2007. Explaining how it is possible to condense Tokien's long trilogy (which, in Peter Jackson's three films, took up ten hours), director Matthew Warchus said, "We have not attempted to pull the novel towards the standard conventions of musical theatre, but rather to expand those conventions so that they will accommodate Tolkien’s material. As a result, we will be presenting a hybrid of text, physical theatre, music and spectacle never previously seen on this scale. To read the novel is to experience the events of Middle-Earth in the mind’s eye; only in the theatre are we actually plunged into the events as they happen. The environment surrounds us. We participate. We are in Middle-Earth." The £14m production has a cast of seventy. The Producers, currently starring Cory English as Max Bialystock and Reece Shearsmith as Leo Bloom, opened on 9th November 2004 (previews from 22nd October) after three yars on Broadway. It cost £5.5m to produce and had great success at the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics Circle Awards. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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