The Lion King

Original Post Date: October 7, 2006

Last night I witnessed a masterpiece. I have never seen such a visually stunning show in all my life. The Lion King is a magnificent piece of theatre. I loved how it was kind of like the movie (which I've seen a million times, by the way!) and yet, different. The new stuff really added to the show.

Let me tell you, though, I wish I hadn't been sitting way up in the balcony. I wish I had been on the main floor, because then I could have seen all the animals go through the aisles at the beginning of the show. That whole first sequence is absolutely breathtaking! We did have two guys up there the beginning of Act 2 with some bird puppets, which was way cool, but I would have liked to have seen everything from further down.

My favorite characters were Rafiki and Zazu. The actress playing Rafiki was AMAZING!!!! I couldn't take my eyes off her, and WHAT A VOICE! Zazu was great, too. He was funnier than the cartoon, I think.

I'm still curious as to why the guy playing Timon was completely green, with the puppet in front of him. It worked fine when Timon was laying in the grass, but other times it was just weird.

Speaking of the grass, who thinks to have ensemble members dress up as grass?! And flowers? The costumes were AMAZING!!!!!!!! I can't believe those actors were doing flips and hand springs and cartwheels with those big masks on! That must have taken a long time to get used to! Kudos to them!

I had never seen a Disney stage musical up until last night. Now, I want to see them all! I'm very excited to be able to see The Little Mermaid when it's in Denver for its out of town tryout! I've always loved Disney musicals. Why shouldn't I have loved them onstage as well? I don't know why I hadn't seen any yet!!!