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Lord of the Rings

By nathanmckean ⋅ November 30, 2007 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ Post a comment

On Tuesday, Kellie and I took advantage of a cheap West End deal: dinner at Fire&Stone and tickets to the Lord of the Rings musical. All in all a great night and another chance to hangout with Kel before she heads home in January.

We got to Fire&Stone pretty early. You kind of have to - the whole idea of these cheap deals is they manage to get a session in for dinner at 5:45 (definitely the earliest I’ve had dinner this year). Fire&Stone does fantastic wood fired pizzas and I’ll definately go back again. A cocktail, salad and pizza later, we headed to the pub for a quick pint.

Our seats at Lord of the Rings weren’t as bad as I had expected, we were in the third row but off to the side. The front rows actually aren’t the best in this as the stage raises quite high at times - £50 million production (it’d want to).

All in all, I guess it was ok. I went mainly to see the sets and how you can spend that much money on a production. Also, with that budget its unlikely to get to Australia. The songs seemed incidental to the story and in a three hour production for all 3 books, key characters and scenes were missing (no faramir storyline etc). But I guess they did the best with what they could.

Gollum was played really well, but for whatever reason I was irritated by most of the others. Maybe its the movie having an effect on me.

All in all, a fun night out for £20.

Tags: entertainment, musicals, reviews