Tonight we saw The Lion King at a theatre in the West End. It was unlike anything I've seen before. The costumes were AMAZING! They were fantastically colorful and incredibly complex (for example, some of the actors were dressed as nearly-full-sized elephants and giraffes). The singing was more or less what was in the movie, with a few songs added for some additional character development. There were numerous beautiful dance sequences (though some of them dragged on a bit too long). Lastly, if you think performing on a revolve (like in Le Mis) is complex, you ain't seen nothin... the Lion King stage had about 300 million moving parts (give or take a couple). Parts of the stage were able to rise and fall; there were several tracks for pieces of set to roll by; there were wires, vines, flying characters, and a scene involving thousands of stampeding wildebeast; and of course, there was a gigantic rock promontory that spiraled up out of the stage floor on several occasions, sometimes with actors performing on it while it was rising.All in all, it was great fun! I liked Le Mis more, overall, but it's not really fair to either show to directly compare them; suffice it to say, they were both amazing, and I'm glad I went!
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Sounds very cool. It reminds me of bit of Cirque du Soleil's KÀ . It has this huge moving stage that at different parts in the show was covered in sand, served as a rock wall, and an underwater ocean. See you guys soon, and welcome back :)
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