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oh my god. i received tickets to go see lord of the rings on stage in toronto for christmas! i'm so excited! they were really expensive though. and only my mom, my dad and myself are going. my brother is not because he will be back at university so i am not allowed to brag at home. but at least i can online! will anyone be there with me?

That does sound exciting! I wish I could go see it. I live near Toronto, too.

Yes, PLEASE give us western Canada unfortunates a review! And all the unfortunates from everywhere else, I suppose.
You are so incredibly lucky.

im soo excited, less than a month to go!!! you know what is weird, that is also my half birthday...which is also april fools day, so in my reckoning, i am half a fool.
i am kind of worried though, i don't know what to wear?!?!?! i dont really "do" dresses, and i have a nice pair of pants i could wear, but i can't think of a good top....i need to go shopping... but i don't have any money...ill get my parents to buy it for me....yes...that will work....muahahaha.

AH HAH! i have my outfit! it is a very cool turgoisey shirt with brown swirls in it and a long sleeved black shirt underneath. and then dress pants. and i got some real cool shoes. they are like slip ons, but they are a couple inches high and they are shiny! (yay shiny things)

i am going to toronto the day before the play and staying in a hotel and i think that i might be going to the ROM (Royal Onataio Museum) which is cool. i want to find out if there are any dog shows going on that weekend, maybe i could go .....its gonna be so fun

i promise that i will give a full reveiew when i get home. maybe if the hotel has interent i will post before i go to the show...eee! so excited!

man i hope so......i was reading a article in the paper about it and they said that there had been a few technical glitches, but that they were working everythihng out....im glad. i dont want a spotlight to fall on my head half way through....speaking of which, i dont know where i am sitting...that might be a good thing to find out...

TADA! I am posting!

It was soo good. Everything was so cool. The special effects were crazy! When you first walk into the theatre half of the walls and most of the ceiling were covered in wooden vines. They had changed the whole place into a forest! It was astounding!

The balrog was one of the coolest things. They had a big shadow type thing, and red spot lights, and red strobe lights and they turned on these huge fans somewhere and blew everyone hair (including the audiences) around everywhere. And they dropped scraps of tissue paper from the ceiling and it looks like ashes ansd stuff. Amazing.

Smeagol/gollum was soo creepy. His costume was cool. And the orcs were on pogo stick type things and they could do flips and stuff. There was this big bar scene in Bree, it was so funny cuz the hobbits and the bree folk (big and little) were flipping over the benches and doing cartwheels ands stuff.

I had one ever so small disapointment. I thought that aragorn should have had a more commanding sort of presense on the stage. They really accentuated his sneaky/rangerness, and not enough of his kinglyness.

But other than that it was the best play I have seen. And I bought a laminated poster and a pewter pendant. So fun! I want to see it again!

oh ya i was on the first balcony level and i was the fourth row from the front, so i was really close.

Omg this sounds SOOOO cool! I wish I could go see it! And I can't believe they actually did that part! In my opinion it's VERY important to the Trilogy. It's a shame it's in Canada and not in the US.