Last week I went and saw a Lord of the Rings stage production at the Theatre Royal Dury Lane (London).

It is a musical. Before I went, i couldn’t work out if “stage production” implied “musical” or not.. but just to avoid anyone else’s confusion - there was definately lots of singing and dancing.

I’m too lazy to go into too much detail… but all in all - I don’t think that the story translates terribly well to stage.

There were contrived scenes for song and dance… and some of these were way too long (take note of the prancing pony, the ents, and the hobbits in the shadow of mount doom)

None of the characters were terribly likable, dislikable or moving in any way… and much of the epic grandeur of the story seems to be lost. The characters looked the part… but i’m not sure if it was the actors or their dialogue that made them seem just a little bit flat.

I will say that some of the liberties taken with the plot itself - were quite understandable. Most of this involved cutting out sections of story - but I do think the general flow from end to end still worked. We still had to sit there for three hours.

Unbelievable! I was in a training course this week when the trainer advised that if we wanted to look at some of the meals that airlines serve out there, a website has been setup to view and upload those meals!

Can’t believe some people’s hobbies.

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