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[emeraldskulblaka]

Tolkien Stage Adaptations - Performance Calendar

~ August 2024 ~

The Hobbit (play; Oskaloosa, IA, USA)

1-4

adaptation by Kim Selody

The Lord of the Rings (musical; Chicago, IL, USA)

1-31 except Mondays

additional matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays

21: Open Captioning (both shows)

22: Projected Spanish Translation

23: ASL Interpretation

25: Audio Description

Сказание о Берене и Лютиэн (equestrian NOTmusical; Plaskinino, Russia)

4

features all four acts with horses for the first time

Taru sormusten herrasta (play; Tampere, Finland)

22-24, 28-31

22: preview

23: opening night

Honourable mentions:

22: a short presentation of Taru sormusten herrasta prior to the first preview, open to the public; Tampere, Finland

30: a talk by Paul Godfrey with presentations of the opera Epic Scenes from The Silmarillion as part of Oxonmoot; Oxford, UK

Performance dates and times are subject to change; please check the original post for up-to-date information.

For a general overview of Tolkien stage adaptations, see this post.

Picture sources: 1 2 3

[returquoise]

Hey I saw your addition to the intermission post. Where's the LOTR musical coming? I love that show, and would love to see it. I can only find information about the UK production that closed a couple weeks ago.

Sadly it's not a musical but the city's Philharmonic Orchestra is doing the music so it's gotta sound good :D

It's coming to Tampere, Finland in autumn 2024. It's a totally new stage version and done in Finnish (offtopic: there's already been several Finnish stage versions, including one in the late 80s [if you want to be traumatised you can check out Hobitit from YouTube, and please note, that one does include the songs from the book!], and another some years ago at the Turku City Theatre - I saw that one and it was shorter than the Tampere version but the visuals were awesome and they literally dropped the Witch King from the ceiling just to have him be killed by Eowyn like 2 minutes later).

The theatre does not have an English language page but pasting the link to google translate and checking the page with that works pretty well.

And looking at the casting I'm even more intrigued to see it; Frodo, Merry, Pippin, Bilbo, and Gimli are all played by women. Also, Galadriel is played by a man 👀

[emeraldskulblaka]

Tolkien Stage Adaptations - Performance Calendar

~ September 2024 ~

The Lord of the Rings (musical; Chicago, IL, USA)

1

Taru sormusten herrasta (play; Tampere, Finland)

4-6, 10-14, 18-21

Финрод (rock opera; Russia)

7 (St. Petersburg; cancelled)

26 (Novosibirsk; postponed from 29 June)

The Hobbit (play; Parktown, South Africa)

14-29

two performances on Saturdays

no performances on Mondays

The Hobbit (play; Yakima, WA, USA)

19-21, 26-28

adaptation by Kim Selody

The Lord of the Rings: Back in the Hobbit (musical parody; Murray, UT, USA)

21, 23, 26-28, 30

two performances on Fridays, four on Saturdays

Сказание о Берене и Лютиэн (equestrian NOTmusical; Plaskinino, Russia)

22

Performance dates and times are subject to change; please check the original post for up-to-date information.

For a general overview of Tolkien stage adaptations, see this post.

Picture sources: 1 2 3