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Synopsis: The Lion King tells the story of the epic adventures of a young lion cub named Simba as he struggles to accept the responsibilities of adulthood and his destined role as king. Click here for tickets.
Reviews
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW:
"Suddenly, you're 4 years old again, and you've been taken to the circus for the first time. You can only marvel at the exotic procession of animals before you: the giraffes and the elephants and the hippopotamuses and all those birds in balletic flight. Moreover, these are not the weary-looking beasts in plumes and spangles that usually plod their way through urban circuses but what might be described as their Platonic equivalents, creatures of air and light and even a touch of divinity."
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NEWSDAY REVIEW:
"A jaw-dropping magnificent spectacle. The show and the playhouse are enchanting. The unprecedented production is worth every penny. If this is Disney's idea of a theme park, we are delighted to report that the theme is quality."
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USA TODAY REVIEW:
"Theater to roar for. From the very first minutes of The Lion King you feel yourself on a whole new ground - no - in a whole new worl.."
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VARIETY REVIEW:
"Disney and Broadway have found a box-office bonanza that in every likelihood will run for years! A stunning coup de theatre...unquestionably the most pulse-quickening on Broadway...impressionistic and utterly graceful...The stunning physical production and terrific score in an ensemble that ranks with the best currently on Broadway. The Lion King is a show that will introduce a new generation of children to the theatre, and doesn't sacrifice a drop of intelligence, integrity or sophistication to do it."
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS REVIEW:
"The Lion King is a perfect marriage of entertainment and art. The experience of the show goes so far beyond its starting point that the title gives you no idea of how beautiful, inventive and even moving it really is... Gorgeous creativity... Great adventures in the theatre, like this one, leave all your senses singing."
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THE NEW YORK POST REVIEW:
"It is extraordinary to look at and to experience. What is most extraordinary is what a wonderful, dazzling musical has been created - a work that stands up to the original not as a copy but as a brilliant development. What you will remember, cherish and (if it's not still running) tell your grandchildren about this Lion King is the total impression of the show: our renewed joy of amazement in the theatre of miracles"
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THEATERMANIA REVIEW:
"Julie Taymor and Michael Curry are indisputably the stars of the new Broadway musical version of The Lion King. They have produced costumes, masks, and puppets of such ingenuity and beauty that even the most jaded of viewers will not fail to be impressed by them. Rafiki, the baboon shaman who heralds the birth of the lion cub Simba at the beginning of the show, is artfully made up in a whimsical fur coat with what looks like a tambourine for a tail, her feet dominated by gigantic toenails and her face painted in a dazzling rainbow of shades. Antelopes whirr by like bicycles; stark, quiet giraffes move stealthily on stilts; an elephant as big as an elephant lumbers by. Bright splashes of cloth at the ends of sticks become birds streaking across a jungle sky, and actors in cane skirts and grass headdresses become the jungle floor. This is not your father's Disney musical: this Lion King is stylized, elegant, at times even, dare we say, sophisticated."
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TIME REVIEW:
"It's gorgeous, gasp-inducing spectacle. The show appeals to our primal, childlike excitement in the power of theater to make us see things afresh. One of the year's top ten."
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