One budget to rule them all
Striving to make theater more irrelevant, the World’s Most Expensive Musical Ever is chugging along in Toronto. Even as I say that, I also say that of course The Lord of the Rings might be good and enjoyable, so I am torn between dichotomous hopes.
First, one hopes that it will be good in a way that the movies were not, giving us more character, fewer battles and special effects, a sense of an extremely difficult journey but not one that’s impossible unless you suspend belief. This would come from employing the strength of the stage. But … one wonders if all the money is being put into overcoming this “weakness” of the stage. So then one realizes that this is probably just another effort to cash in on the something du jour by fooling the masses into thinking it’s important because it’s at the theatre, my good man. And at 27 million (Canadian?) dollars, one would experience a certain schadenfreude in its failure, which is my other hope.
Posted by Kevin Ashworth at July 17, 2005 06:47 PM
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