The Lion King
Jul. 20th, 2008 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liakuJust got back. Not much to say, really.
I don't want to be too harsh, but kid!Simba really sucked. To his credit, he did the last few notes of "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" quite well. On the other hand, I really liked grown!Simba. I remembered commenting that he was a total goofball when I saw the show a few years ago in NY, but this one was perfect. "Endless Nights" gave me goosebumps "He Lives In You" was somehow even better than I remembered it.
"Shadowlands" was excellent. My opinion of kid!Nala can be summed up as she was better than kid!Simba. Adult!Nala was great. Hit a few different notes from what I was used to, but still lovely.
Rafiki rocks my world. Well, Serkan Kaya rocks my world, but Rafiki rocked it tonight.
I had the thought that it was really strange that they didn't put Simba challenging Scar to song. I mean, the dialogue is pretty well-suited for lyrics.
The Lion King is a pretty flawed musical. They start with "The Circle of Life" which is pretty much worth about half the cost of the admission ticket, and then the entirety of Act I dramatically fails to match up to the bang the show started with. Act II's lovely, of course, but really short even for an Act II. The show itself calls for an extremely strong and talented ensemble and, in this performance, the ensemble made a habit of overpowering the rest of the cast.
Mind you, I had great seats for (relatively) cheap, so I loved it.
I don't want to be too harsh, but kid!Simba really sucked. To his credit, he did the last few notes of "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" quite well. On the other hand, I really liked grown!Simba. I remembered commenting that he was a total goofball when I saw the show a few years ago in NY, but this one was perfect. "Endless Nights" gave me goosebumps "He Lives In You" was somehow even better than I remembered it.
"Shadowlands" was excellent. My opinion of kid!Nala can be summed up as she was better than kid!Simba. Adult!Nala was great. Hit a few different notes from what I was used to, but still lovely.
Rafiki rocks my world. Well, Serkan Kaya rocks my world, but Rafiki rocked it tonight.
I had the thought that it was really strange that they didn't put Simba challenging Scar to song. I mean, the dialogue is pretty well-suited for lyrics.
The Lion King is a pretty flawed musical. They start with "The Circle of Life" which is pretty much worth about half the cost of the admission ticket, and then the entirety of Act I dramatically fails to match up to the bang the show started with. Act II's lovely, of course, but really short even for an Act II. The show itself calls for an extremely strong and talented ensemble and, in this performance, the ensemble made a habit of overpowering the rest of the cast.
Mind you, I had great seats for (relatively) cheap, so I loved it.