Rahman with his Orchestrator, Christopher Nightingale.Looks like A R Rahman's got another stinker on his hand. Sadly, the Lord of the Rings musical isn't really setting his stock on fire. Remember the kind of reviews Bombay Dreams received on its Broadway debut. With NY Times dismissing it right away, doubts about LOTR even making it to Broadway (based on reviews by the NYC-based media) have been raised.
NY Times Review:
You speak not the half of it, O cherub-cheeked lad of Middle Earth. The production in which you exist so perilously is indeed a murky, labyrinthine wood from which no one emerges with head unmuddled, eyes unblurred or eardrums unrattled. Everyone and everything winds up lost in this $25 million adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's cult-inspiring trilogy of fantasy novels. That includes plot, character and the patience of most ordinary theatergoers.
1 comment:
I think since westerners highly value original music...his bombay dreams contained copies on popular western music, and now LOTR is fated the same...sad ARR.
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