The Lord of the Rings stage musical – which originally premiered in Toronto before being reworked for the London stage – is to be revived.

Deadline is reporting that a new production is set to be performed at the Watermill Theatre in Berkshire for 12 weeks from July 25. The book and lyrics are by Shaun McKenna and Matthew Warchus, with music by A.R. Rahman (Bombay Dreams, Slumdog Millionaire), Finnish folk group Värttinä and Christopher Nightingale (Matilda the Musical). According to Paul Hart of the Watermill, ”We’re going to give audiences a very visceral experience in that they’ll be arriving into The Shire on our lawn.”

Fredrica Drotos, Director of Brand and Licensing at Middle-earth Enterprises, noted that she “can’t imagine a more fitting locale for the live staging of the fellowship’s epic adventures from The Shire to Mordor, and back again set in the bucolic Berkshire countryside.” Tickets will be available from March 15.

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