Galaxy’s Ring Opening / June 21 2007
Nelson was in attendance at the opening night of the Lord of the Rings musical in London’s West End on Tuesday.
Like many of the other critics who were there to witness the results of the £12.5 million that had so far been invested into the production, he was left largely unimpressed.
‘It wasn’t the wonderful experience I was hoping for,’ he yawned down the telephone.
Knowing him as I do, I think that my erudite and glamorous friend was severely disappointed. He is not usually to be found acting as a pithy and well-informed theatre critic, but he is a fully paid-up Tolkien aficionado and has an expansive knowledge of the books and of the Peter Jackson movies.
‘It was an extravagant and spectacular festival of boredom,’ he reported. ‘It was so dreary and tedious, it made one of my fillings fall out.’
I was hoping that he would be offering some keen insights into the subtleties of the performance or commenting on the cunning ingenuity of the staging, but in concluding our conversation, all he said was this: ‘It was crap.’
Not subtle I know, but snappy and succinct none the less.
On the Fantastic hi-fi today:
Because of the Times – Kings of Leon
Stand – Sly and the Family Stone
Filed under Culture / London / Lord of the Rings / Nelson Galaxy
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2 comments on “Galaxy’s Ring Opening”
Jo Beaufoix / June 21st, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Poor Nelson.
I hope it didn’t cause him to go out and drown his sorrows too much.
Napoleon Fantastic / June 22nd, 2007 at 1:24 pm
It doesn’t take much to make him do that.
He does keep his drinking days restricted to only the ones with a ‘y’ in them though.
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