The production featured a cast of 50 actors and reportedly cost £12 million (approximately US$25 million), making it one of the most expensive musicals ever produced in the West End. The same creative team as the Toronto production was involved in the London production, with only four cast members reprising their roles from Toronto- James Loye (Frodo), Owen Sharpe (Pippin), Peter Howe (Sam) and Michael Therriault (Gollum). The significantly re-written show, shortened to three hours, began previews at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on May 9, 2007, with its official premiere June 19, 2007. "includ(ing) plot, character and the patience of most ordinary theatergoers." London Ben Brantley of the New York Times said "Everyone and everything winds up lost,". Richard Corliss of Time Magazine described it as "ingenious" and a "definitive megamusical". It was nominated for 15 Dora Awards, winning 7, including "Outstanding New Musical" and awards for direction, design and choreography. The show played to almost 400,000 people in Toronto. It received mixed reviews from the press and had its final performance September 3, 2006. The production began performances on February 4, 2006, and had its press opening on March 23, 2006. It starred Brent Carver as Gandalf and Michael Therriault as Gollum, and was directed by Matthew Warchus and choreographed by Peter Darling, with set and costume design by Rob Howell. It was promoted as a spectacle of unusual scale.
The three-and-a-half-hour-long three-act production, with a cast of 65 actors, was mounted in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the Princess of Wales Theatre, at a cost of approximately C$30 million. Rahman and Värttinä, collaborating with Christopher Nightingale. London-based theatre producer Kevin Wallace and his partner, Saul Zaentz-stage and film rights holder and producer of the animated film version of 1978-in association with Toronto theatre owner David Mirvish and concert promoter Michael Cohl, produced a stage musical adaptation with a book and lyrics written by Shaun McKenna and Matthew Warchus, and music by A.
By the time The Lord of the Rings closed one year later in July 2008, it had become one of the biggest commercial flops in West End history. The show was first performed in Toronto in 2006, before transferring to the West End in June 2007 with a record £25 million budget. Set in the world of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings tells the tale of a humble hobbit who is asked to play the hero and undertake a treacherous mission to destroy an evil, magic ring without being seduced by its power. Rahman, Christopher Nightingale and the band Värttinä, and book and lyrics by Matthew Warchus and Shaun McKenna. Tolkien's epic high fantasy novel of the same name, with music by A. The Lord of the Rings is the most prominent of several theatre adaptations of J.
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