The true(ish) story behind the funniest flop in Toronto’s history.

What happens when a lonely writer, a desperate mayor, and a sinister British producer team up to turn a 2,000-page fantasy trilogy into a musical? Hilarity!

This July, GIG Productions presents the world premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Musical: The Musical! As the theatrical version of the Lord of the Rings begins its new run in London, LOTRTMTM takes you all the way back to 2006, when singing hobbits in a $27 million production were going to save Toronto’s tourist industry.

While the debate still rages about where in the title to place the colon, this musical send-up of the unexpectedly resounding failure of 'LotR:TM' is sure to amuse city-dwellers with its highly self-referential quest.

- Sam Sutherland, AOL Music