Despite winning an armful of Dora's, poor ticket sales and a lukewarm critical reception means that the Lord of The Rings musical will be dying an untimely death come September, less than six months after it opened.

Producer David Wallace blamed it on the show's British sensibility which we unsophisticated Canadians are just not able to understand. Ok, we paraphrased this last bit. He also blames Toronto critics, many of whom gave the production only tepid reviews.

Kamal Al-Solaylee in the Globe gives a very thorough accounting on just what went wrong with the production: everything from its lack of an emotional core to a terrible advertising campaign.

Maybe they should've listened to Torontoist's Alison Broverman and included those tap-dancing orcs. That should be in their London run?