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Peaceful LIFE.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
went to London over the weekend to pick up Joan's friend, Gerrent and to watch LOTR the musical. Gerrent treated us to lunch! Whee! wonderful pizzas and tiramisu, bwahahaha! tiramisu date when I return, anyone? haha.
Anyway, LOTR musical was brilliant! seriously. well, if you expect it to be just like the movie, then I'd say you're deluded. Don't bother watching the musical. But if you know that this is a musical, and naturally, there are limitations which the movie does not face but the musical does, then you would be blown away by the amount of talent and creativity used for this musical.
Being only 3 hours long, and being unable to actually have LOTR the musical Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 (poor tourists like me wouldn't be able to afford to fly to London consecutively for 3 years), the storyline is bound to be stripped down and messed around with. This musical expects the audience to know the LOTR story, preferably read and know the book(s). This musical expects the audience to come with an open mind. This musical expects the audience to know that this is, afterall, a MUSICAL.
I was blown away by the brilliance. There were even songs in Elvish!!! And omg, the moment Legolas open his mouth to sing, I melted. Beautiful. And the person playing Aragorn was brilliant as well! And don't even get me started on Gollum and Galadriel. Guy playing Gollum deserves a trophy. The scene where he has an internal conflict? Absolutely fantastic. It was a freaking hard scene to portray, and he did it brilliantly! Galadriel's vocal range was stunning. My goodness.
Plot-wise, it was alright. Like I said, you have to know the story by heart. Cinematic brilliance? Definitely not applicable. War scenes? Put it this way. If you try to squeeze 50 people or more onto the stage to depict the fantastic battles the movie was able to portray, you'd have a trampled audience. I personally value my life.
Costumes? Beautiful!!! Amazing. Characters/cast? Woot! Bravery, for daring to do stunts and stuff that reminds one of a circus act. And yes, the hobbits are actually shorter. Even the dwarf if shorter. And Gollum does crawl around. And yes, they are able to portray the vanishing acts. And there were Ents. And no, the orcs did not sing. Neither did the ringwraiths. But they were scary in their own way. Stage props? They deserve all the awards for this. Never seen such creativity employed before. And the usage of the stage! Brilliant. Music? Halfway through the musical, I wanted to own the OST of the musical.
In short, watch the musical if you can. And if you have an open-mind about it.
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Apologies for the lack of updates. It is essays period once again. And I am ill. So hurrah. Anyways, Butler Court Summer Ball photos and updates will be up when I'm free. Prolly on Fri or Sat. Yeppers! And I still owe you guys photos from Amsterdam and Brussels, and other random ones taken after. GAH. You should just get facebook and view them there. Bwahahahaha.
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