The Hobbit Musical?
Published on: 15th April, 2009
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Kevin Wallace, the Director of the much troubled Lord of the Rings stage show hopes to follow up by bringing The Hobbit to the stage. “The stage rights to The Hobbit are controlled by the [Saul] Zaentz company, my co-producers. I’d certainly like to raise the question. A first-class production of The Hobbit would be very interesting indeed.”
Before Mr. Wallace even thinks about trying to convince Mr. Zaentz though, he needs to recoup some of the £12 Million sterling his backers invested in his Lord of the Rings stage show.
Mr. Wallace hopes to take the show to Cologne, Germany and claims to have backers on the horizon.
“There is a fund interested in financing the production,” he told the UK newspaper The Independent. “The authorities are going to construct a semi-permanent building specifically to hold productions of the Lord of the Rings. We are trying to get them to write formally to confirm the site. We hope for such a confirmation by July, with the play opening in November or December 2009.”
The Lord of the Rings musical is the most expensive ever staged in the UK and reviews were wildly varying with some loving the production and other critics going after it like an Orc through a Shire. With money lost on The Lord of the Rings stage show its hard to see anything happening about a stage version of The Hobbit, at least until the 2 movies have been and gone and everything Middle Earth related is devoured as fast as it becomes available.
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Susan Boyle can play Bilbo.
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I was hoping she’d play Gollum but you can’t have it all your own way.
LOTR the Musical sounds bad enough but I dread to think what the Hobbit would be like. You could cast Ronnie Corbett as Bilbo and Thorin Oakenshield and his companions can sing “Money, Money, Money” throughout.
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