Broadway

[AlphaFrog]

The Lion King was VERY good.

It was supposed to be my husband, mother, and father...but my mom can't keep her dates straight, so she ended up booking a trip to Chicago this weekend. So we took my daughter who will be 3 in October. I was a little bit nervous, but she did well. Our only incidents were her getting a little too excited, and clapping and cheering when Mufasa died (I guess she figured every other time the music stopped and the lights dimmed that people clapped, so why not this time...) and toward the end, she got tired.

In general, I liked how the people who were animals, but had most of their body outside the costume (like the first lion that appears) still act like the animal with their entire body. I also like how they acknowledge the fact that the animals have humans operating them, as well as the scenery is human. The only thing that I didn't care for, is when they stopped singing in a song and a bunch of dancers with only masks or minimum costumes came out and danced. After seeing some of those puppets dance, the regular dancers just didn't do it for me.

The Rafiki I saw was EXCELLENT. Also, the Mufasa and Older Nala were very good singers. Everyone else were pretty much dancers that could kind of sing (ok, they were still good, but just not the quality you expect in a Broadway show).