For Adults!! (Lion King)

Member Name: garyse16

Product:	Lion King
Date:	10/02/01 (113 review reads)
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Advantages: Pure magic

Disadvantages: None

How many theatregoers must have been put off going to see Lion King because it's a theatre production of a Disney cartoon and it's for children? What a fantastic treat they're missing.

The task of adapting a cartoon which feaures no people, only amimals, is no mean feat. It would be easy to go down the route of gorilla costumes and crass stuff like that. Here though they've gone for puppetry, illusion and imagination. The opening scene features a parade of all the animals in the jungle accompamied by stiring african influanced music. As strange as it seems, the whole thing is tremendously moving and the sight of the "elephant" ambling down the centre isle leaves hardly a dry eye in the house.

This is a production which draws on pure theatre - no complicated light effects of amamatronics. It truely amazes the audience.

Lion King is one of the best Disney cartoon. Good story and good music. The stage version works even better.

The cast are without exception brilliant.

If you were disappointed with the first Disney stage production, the awful Beauty and the Beast, please don't be put off trying Lion King, there's no comparison.

Lion King really is an ideal piece of theatre for adults. Do what ever it takes to get a ticket!

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