Some numbers

Borrowed from the National Post

BY THE NUMBERS
HERE ARE SOME NUMERICAL BREAKDOWNS FROM THE STAGE PRODUCTION OF LORD OF THE RINGS:

$27-million Cost of The Lord of the Rings.
3.5 Running time in hours.
55 Number of cast.
500 Number of pieces of armour in the show.
150 Number of weapons.
7 Weight of the screen at the back of the set in tons.
40 Weight of the computer-controlled stage floor in tons.
30 Amount, in tons, of concrete that had to be removed from under the old stage to install the network of new steel supports to take that 40-ton weight.
17 Number of elevators in the stage floor.
20 Number of 4,000-cubic-foot sea freight containers used to ship the set pieces from England.
73 Number of people working behind the scenes on each performance.
808 Number of shoes worn by hobbits, orcs, elves and ents.
280 Number of gloves worn by the hobbits, orcs, elves and ents.
504 Number of costumes.
387 Costume changes.
5,000 Yards of fabric in the costumes.
37,155 Man-hours spent making the costumes and hats at Toronto's Seamless Costumes.
400 Number of individual metal motifs hand-sewn on Elrond's costume.

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