4 posts tagged “london”
Yesterday I received the cd of the Lord of the Rings musical, Sean ordered it for me. I've been listening to it a lot, and I have to say I am still impressed by the quality of the whole thing. I have to admit, I was sceptical when we ordered our (hugely expensive) tickets last year when we went to London in july. But we weren't disappointed.
On YouTube I found the dvd that came with the cd, it only has the songs in better sound-quality and pictures to accompany it, but on the website you can find some clips of the show, yay! LOTR Musical Clips. Why those were not put on the dvd no one knows... The music is composed by Värttinä, among others.
Yes, the woman who plays Galadriel, Laura Michelle Kelly, plays the beggar woman / Lucy Barker in Sweeney Todd.
Since I am currently ill I finally have time to write an update, how ironic. But it's a good thing, I missed posting here. As you know I promised to write about Norway and London, I will do that after I organized the pictures.
Ah the London pictures are uploaded, so behind the cut are some pictures from London! Finally!
This is in Covent Garden, I love these kind of things!
Also in Covent Garden.
This was in one of the wonderful streets full of bookshops... how I love London!
A lovely signpost on the way to The Tower of London.
The view from somewhere near the Tower of London.
The Tower Bridge in the back.
The White Tower - I believe.
And of course - a raven!
I'm currently in quite a state: we just returned from a few days of London AND there's the final Harry Potter book. Yesterday was absolutely mad. Friday night we took the boat home (hoping against hope they would have some copies of The Book on sale at midnight or that they would at least show a Harry Potter movie in the cinema, but nothing of the kind). We arrived in Hoek van Holland at 7:30, Sean's father picked us up and actually drove to Utrecht to let us buy our reserved copies. As soon as we got home we started reading and couldn't manage to put it down. I finished it last night and I love it. It is a wonderful book and a great conclusion to the series, I do think it's the best book of them all.
London: we've been walking around London like idiots trying to do as many things as possible, failing miserably in doing/seeing everything we wanted but managed to see/do the most important things. I love that city! We went to the British Museum and the Tower of London, and we walked through a big part of the city just shopping and looking around. There are still many, many places we want to see, so there will be lots to do when we return.
The Lord of the Rings musical was AMAZING and should really become a huge success, it deserves to be. The decor was impressive and the way they managed to put the whole story into a three hour musical is absolutely amazing. Wow. We both absolutely loved it. They took some liberties, of course, but I think they did a great job. We had seats in the front row, we weren't to happy about that in the beginning, but those seats turned out to be quite well. We could see almost everything, except when people would lie/fall down on stage or when things happened further back on stage. On the upside: we could see all the facial expressions and because they used a rotating stage and the stage would change in height we managed to see almost everything. I should say that the upper circle or balcony seats would have been better, and seats more in the back would have better view (ironically enough those would all have been cheaper - whereas we paid 60 pound per ticket, the most expensive tickets...) I am definitely not complaining, but I would advise everyone to check the seating plan. We didn't know how (and if) we could pick the seats so we just took those available.
I agree with everything 'Dumbledore' (it is his voice, isn't it?) says on the site: a spectacle, amazing, wonderful. It really is! Even Sean liked it, and he really isn't the musical type.
We managed to book a trip to London! I am so excited. We'll take the boat on tuesday the 17th in the evening, and we'll go back on friday the 20th, also in the evening. We initially wanted to stay until saturday (mainly to buy the new Harry Potter book, and possibly see the Hogwarts Express) but unfortunately the boat was booked full on saturday. Still, this is wonderful!
Now the fun part starts: deciding what we're going to do and see... Suggestions anyone?
