Music For New Lord of the Rings Musical

AR Rahman, who wrote music for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams, has been hired to write the score for a musical version of Lord of the Rings. “Rahman is a star in his native India and has sold more than 100 million albums, composing the soundtracks to more than 50 Bollywood films. The £8m musical is due to open in the spring of 2005 in London.”