Stage
Several musical theatre adaptations have been made based on The Lord of the Rings.
Full-length productions of each of The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003) were staged in Cincinnati, Ohio .
Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, produced individual plays of each of the three books over various years in the 1990s.
In 2006, a large-scale three-and-a-half-hour The Lord of the Rings musical was produced in Toronto. The expensive production lost money and closed six months later and, after some cutting and rewriting, began performances in London on 9 May 2007, but closed on 19 July 2008, due to bad reviews.
A musical parody of The Fellowship of the Ring, titled Fellowship! ran in LA for a stint at two separate occasions, coming back 3 years after its debut for a number of shows in the summer of 2009.
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