say it ain't so

Currently in pre-production, with an opening planned for February 2006, is THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE MUSICAL. That's right. A stage musical of Tolkien's tale.

It's currently got a budget of $25million, but has already generated $8million in advanced ticket sales. It's being produced in Canada and I belive is set to open in London. The music is by a Finnish team of composers.

I don't know. Perhaps it will turn out to be really phenomenal. But I do feel that our society can really take a good thing too far. Are we not satisfied? If we see something we like do we really have to reproduce it in a thousand different ways in order to get our fix?

Perhaps I'm mistaken, perhaps the producer(s) behind LOTR:The Musical really wants nothing more than to celebrate Tolkien's work with the musical homage, but something tells me that what it really is about is capitalizing on pop culture to make a buck.