Aaaiiieeee! The Lord of the Rings Muscial - in Canada!
While tooling around the internet, I came across this either terrific or terrible undertaking:
Precious News! Tony Award Winner Will Play Gandalf in Lord of the Rings Musical; Cast Announced
By Kenneth Jones (25 Jul 2005)
Brent Carver, who won a Tony Award for playing Molina in the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, will be wizened wizard Gandalf in the new 2006 musical, The Lord of the Rings, the producers announced July 25.
The world premiere musical condensation of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy trilogy will have a cast of 55 at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre. Performances begin Feb. 2, 2006. "Having auditioned 4,000 actors over four months across Canada, followed by in-depth recall auditions with 350," the creative team — led by director Matthew Warchus and producer Kevin Wallace — announced a cast drawn from across Canada and the United Kingdom. Carver is a Canadian theatre star and a veteran of the Stratford Festival and many resident theatres there. Director Matthew Warchus said, "Following two years of design, script and music pre-production, arriving at a cast is a thrilling and auspicious moment. I am particularly proud of the huge diversity of skill in the company. Wonderful, experienced actors will be working alongside acrobats, stilt-walkers and outstanding singers, all pooling their talents to bring this magical story alive on the stage. Given the size of the show, this is bound to be the most grueling production process any of us has been through, but when I look at this company, I am eager to begin!" Frodo, the Hobbit ring-bearer, will be played by young British actor James Loye; Gollum will be played by Michael Therriault, a Stratford veteran and recent Leo of the Canadian staging of The Producers (he's currently in Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof); Evan Buliung will play Aragorn, the king-in-waiting; wizard Saruman, the leader of the White Council corrupted by his lust for the Ring, will be played by Richard McMillan (Scar in the Canadian Premiere production of Disney's The Lion King); Peter Howe is Sam, Frodo's faithful friend (Howe was discovered by LOTR creative team in London after he wrote to the London production office requesting an audition; this marks his professional stage debut); Canadian Dylan Roberts is Merry and Irishman Owen Sharpe is Pippin; Gabriel Burrafato (of the recent Hal Prince-supervised Evita tour) is Legolas; Dion Johnstone is Boromir; Carly Street is Arwen; Victor A. Young will play Elrond; Kerry Dorey is Théoden and Kristin Galer plays Rosie.
Next up: Fantastic Four Riverdance?
I'm gonna go with my feelings and try to go up there and see it, just to behold the spectacle and wonder of all the costumes. How long will this musical be, I wonder? Nine, ten days? I have my fingers crossed...
Precious News! Tony Award Winner Will Play Gandalf in Lord of the Rings Musical; Cast Announced
By Kenneth Jones (25 Jul 2005)
Brent Carver, who won a Tony Award for playing Molina in the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, will be wizened wizard Gandalf in the new 2006 musical, The Lord of the Rings, the producers announced July 25.
The world premiere musical condensation of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy trilogy will have a cast of 55 at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre. Performances begin Feb. 2, 2006. "Having auditioned 4,000 actors over four months across Canada, followed by in-depth recall auditions with 350," the creative team — led by director Matthew Warchus and producer Kevin Wallace — announced a cast drawn from across Canada and the United Kingdom. Carver is a Canadian theatre star and a veteran of the Stratford Festival and many resident theatres there. Director Matthew Warchus said, "Following two years of design, script and music pre-production, arriving at a cast is a thrilling and auspicious moment. I am particularly proud of the huge diversity of skill in the company. Wonderful, experienced actors will be working alongside acrobats, stilt-walkers and outstanding singers, all pooling their talents to bring this magical story alive on the stage. Given the size of the show, this is bound to be the most grueling production process any of us has been through, but when I look at this company, I am eager to begin!" Frodo, the Hobbit ring-bearer, will be played by young British actor James Loye; Gollum will be played by Michael Therriault, a Stratford veteran and recent Leo of the Canadian staging of The Producers (he's currently in Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof); Evan Buliung will play Aragorn, the king-in-waiting; wizard Saruman, the leader of the White Council corrupted by his lust for the Ring, will be played by Richard McMillan (Scar in the Canadian Premiere production of Disney's The Lion King); Peter Howe is Sam, Frodo's faithful friend (Howe was discovered by LOTR creative team in London after he wrote to the London production office requesting an audition; this marks his professional stage debut); Canadian Dylan Roberts is Merry and Irishman Owen Sharpe is Pippin; Gabriel Burrafato (of the recent Hal Prince-supervised Evita tour) is Legolas; Dion Johnstone is Boromir; Carly Street is Arwen; Victor A. Young will play Elrond; Kerry Dorey is Théoden and Kristin Galer plays Rosie.
Next up: Fantastic Four Riverdance?
I'm gonna go with my feelings and try to go up there and see it, just to behold the spectacle and wonder of all the costumes. How long will this musical be, I wonder? Nine, ten days? I have my fingers crossed...
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