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Lion King
Sun rises in the Savanna with the news that Mufasa, the Lion King of the jungle has got a cub. Their loyal (and not so loyal) subjects all over the Savanna gather at the Pride Rock to greet their future lion king. It is a moment of pride for the Royal Family, bar Mufasa's brother Scar. Scar seethes at the thought of being thwarted by yet another competitor to the Lion King throne. His only hope to be the Lion King is over the dead body of his brother and nephew.
Mufasa rules his kingdom with kindness and wisdom. On contrary, Scar is the archetypical baddie, and generally feared, despised and loathed. The King's subjects love their king. Mufasa teaches his son, Simba, the Circle of Life and that every thing is connected in a balance.
Scar is not the only craven creature around. There are some just as malicious…the hyenas! The most hated beasts. Scar forms an unholy alliance with the evil hyenas to devise a plan for killing the king and the prince. Obviously this would be the only path to reach the throne. They engineer a stampede and in the turmoil, Scar managed to kill Mufasa mercilessly. The whole blame for the death of the king falls on adolescent Simba. Scar gives him an option to run away and never return home. They poor cub could do nothing but to run away. Scar takes over the throne as the next rightful king!
Meanwhile on the order of new king, the hyenas make an attempt to kill Simba. Fortunately he manages to escape their vicious clutches. Assumed dead by everyone, Simba manages to run to another amazing land and form some immediate friends. This was the beginning of the new life of the lion cub. But is he destined to get his legitimate place as the Lion King at the Pride Rock? Will Simba ever return and save the kingdom?
The award winning director and designer Julie Taymor brings this spectacular super hit from Disney on stage. This adaptation of the animated Disney film was the winner of six Tony Awards in 1998 including Best Musical, Choreography and Direction. Based on Disney's most successful animated feature to date, The Lion King tells the story of Simba, a lion cub, whose quest to take his rightful place as king of the beasts takes him on a journey of self innovation and deliverance.
The story itself is an old, familiar one(more on that later). We see a resonance of this story in all cultures and almost everyone who will ever see the play already has already seen the movie. I still argue that it's definitely worth seeing it on stage. The medium offers a personal appeal and interactivity that the movie just can not match.
Julie Taymor, one of America's most innovative directors, has extensive experience staging epic theatre and opera productions, exploring classic myths through ritualized puppetry, mask and movement. Taymor brings this same array of disciplines to The Lion King, the first musical she has directed in the commercial theatre. She has made Broadway history by becoming the first woman ever to win the Tony Award for best director of a musical.
Every member of the creative team won Tony Awards for the physical production, and they reunited in London to recreate The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre. Julie Taymor and Michael Curry have created hundreds of masks and puppets. Scenic design is by leading British designer Richard Hudson; lighting is by Donald Holder. Costume design is by Julie Taymor, and choreography by Garth Fagan. The book has been adapted by Roger Allers, who co-directed the animated feature, and Irene Mecchi, who co-wrote the screenplay of The Lion King. It was the names of these outstanding artists that people spend millions of dough on Disney Lion King Tickets!
The Lion King: The Broadway Musical first premiered at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN, on July 8, 1997. Due to critical acclaim and immense popularity it is now playing at the New Amsterdam Theater on Broadway. Disney movie studio was doing terribly financially until they released the animated feature, The Lion King. It broke box office records and even won academy awards for its superb songs. This musical version of Disney's most popular animated feature ever has drawn critical acclaim and reviews for its amazing special effects and incredible staging. Lion King Broadway tickets are always the hottest ones in the town(or at least compete with “Wicked” , another production I enjoyed recently)
This is The Lion King: giraffes prance, birds lunge and gazelles leap! The entire savanna comes to life and, as the music soars, Pride Rock slowly rises out of the stage. Marvel at the breathtaking manifestation of animals miraculously brought to life in an inferno of fabulous imagination by a cast of over 50 actors. The fiesta continues for three hours. The Lion King employs 232 puppets, 27 kite-birds and143 people and nearly a hundred others to create its magic. Lion King Tickets are well worth their price!
Taymor's first challenge was to determine how she should approach a story that is all about animals, but is in essence a human story. She eventually decided to put the accent on this duality between the human and the animal by combining masks and puppetry with live actors. She created giant masks that would represent characters such as Scar and Mufasa, but left the human face revealed below the mask so that the actors' facial expressions would not be lost.
Taymor's next snag was finding a way to put across the atmosphere of The Lion King in a live theatre. Determined not to tone down the scale of the film, she wanted to bring to the stage such vast and sweeping elements as the rolling African Savannah and the famous wildebeest stampede in which Mufasa is killed by his brother Scar. She succeeded in reproducing these majestic effects through the use of ingenious hazy staging techniques. For the wildebeest scene, she created a false perspective of great distance by placing five earth-colored portals one behind the other. She then used a canvas scroll and a series of large rollers to create the illusion of thousands of racing animals. The effect in the theatre is electrifying as thousands of wildebeests seem to be rushing straight at Simba -- and at the audience!
The stunning simplicity of The Lion King is the work of a team of designers which draws on diverse cultural influences. They manage to recreate the rich colors and vast expanses of the African savanna in this daring and inspiring reinvention of one of the most successful animated films of all time. With wildly inventive life-size puppets, exotic masks, and costumes, Disney's adaptation of its popular animated movie is a visual stunner.
Coming back to the story, Simba has forgotten his past life and the fact that he is the legitimate king of the Pride Lands. His life is free of qualms and anxiety with his new friends Timon and Bumbaa. Years after years passes and he never had a thought of going back to take his father's throne. He does think of returning after he met his best friend from the childhood, Nala, the lioness, but he turned down the idea. After Rafiki, the witch doctor mandrill showed Simba that Mufasa's spirit still lives on inside him; Mufasa appeared to him as a ghost. He demands of Simba to look inside himself and understand that he is the only rightful king. Simba can not resist his father's will and decides to go back home.
The battle begins, and as the lionesses and hyenas fight, Simba does battle with Scar on the summit. Scar tried to blame everything on the hyenas,who happen to overhear Scar. Obviously, they are not pleased. There is a climatic combat and Simba is thrown to the edge of the cliff. Scar jumps through the flames to finish Simba off but it is Simba who throws his uncle over the cliff edge and watches as Scar's former hyena allies devour the dictator. Simba is finally declared king and leads the Pride Lands back into times of prosperity and glory. Simba and Nala have a baby cub that is presented in a triumphant ceremony, regalia reminiscent of the film's beginning. Circle of life indeed!
The righteous and the rightful is vindicated and the natural order is restored towards the end. Any theater lover, this scribe included is reminded of Shakespeare. Ghost of the dead father urging son to restore order. Can you say, Hamlet? OK, so Lion King is Hamlet but with a happy ending. Here I argue that we as Americans don't like unhappy endings. We all like the Jerry who gets blown up by Tom with a ton of dynamite, and he's none worse for the wear. A few stars, a little bump and that's about it. To be fair, the fan fare and the regalia is rather nice and do we really want to spent a few hundred dollars on theater where we come home depressed by Hamlet's fate? And how exactly can we fit in, gazelles, savannahs and wildebeests in Denmark.
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