LOTR: The Musical
(Edit: a rare picture of me, since usually I take the pictures. This is the only dressy suit I have left that almost fits me (the rest are more noticeably too big or else too small across the chest thanks to breastfeeding) and yes, I need a haircut as usual. And that is me being silly about my Volvo. :))
I did indeed leave Noah with Carl and go to my mother’s 7-hr long birthday party. Noah did just fine: drank breast milk from his sippy, went to bed on time (go bedtime routine!), got up at about the usual time if he’s going to get up twice, and probably would have gone right back down if I hadn’t arrived. At which point he nursed like he’d been starved for weeks (despite all the ounces taken by sippy).
And I saw Lord of the Rings the musical, in its world premiere. (err not THE NIGHT premiere, but the first production. Sorry :))
The staging was amazing. Whoever wrote the two-page precis of the plot deserves a literary award for squishing it all into the programme. Some of the music was pretty ok, the non-song part. And there was a lot of artistry of movement and athleticism in terms of dance and puppetry and portrayal of various races.
(Except. Flying Elves. What. the. fuck?)
But. Gandalf was simply awful - like, terrible. As in I was cheering for his death. And not a memorable song in the score, and most of the songs worse than not memorable. And the singing on the part of the men was terrible (Arwen and Galadriel were more than fine). Terrible. Magdalynn got a headache from the harmony or lack thereof and the way they couldn’t stay with the orchestra. As in the music stopping and then the singers.
They did a decent job telling the story - literally having to tell it like:
Gandalf: It is fortunate indeed that my friend the eagle was able to rescue me from Sauroman’s tower.
… to fit it in.
Ooookay. I mean, obviously they were going to have to. But the amount of dumbing down was annoying and as my brother in law said, maybe the whole concept was simply a bad idea.
So despite my slight fond spot for musicals and Canadian talent, I recommend waiting to spend your money on Wicked.
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The tickets here in South Florida were over $200. Those afordable were sold out before the show was even listed.
I love the photo! Happy 9th month! isn’t there just something about your baby and your husband together that makes all pictures amazing?