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'Lord of the Rings': All Singing, All Dancing?
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'Lord of the Rings': All Singing, All Dancing?
Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 02:10 PM PT

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Want to see a hobbit do a soft-shoe in his big, bare hobbit feet? Book a flight to London in 2005.

After the success of New Zealand director Peter Jackson's big-adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Bollywood wants to put its musical spin to the tale.

It was announced on Tuesday (Oct. 21) that Indian composer A.R. Rahman and a Finnish folk troupe, Vattina, have been commissioned to write songs for a musical stage version of the fantastical epic, according to the AP.

Rahman is a veteran Bollywood songwriter who scored the Andrew Lloyd Webber-produced musical "Bombay Dreams."

The Finnish folk troupe's take on the tale is especially appropriate since Tolkien used the Finnish language as the basis of the Elvish tongue spoken in Middle Earth. It is thought that Tolkien drew upon the Finnish folk epic, the "Kalevala," to create his epic classic.

The "Rings" musical is scheduled to open in London in spring 2005. The final installment of Jackson's version of the tale, "The Return of the King," opens Dec. 17.

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