Well? Can you??
Tonight we made it back out to Covent Garden to take in a show, this time seeing the Broadway production of The Lion King. It was playing at the Lyceum Theatre which was built in 1834, although a theatre has been on this site since 1765. OK… your trivia for the day: In 1802 the Lyceum was the site of Madame Tussaud’s initial display of waxworks. Now back to your regularly scheduled blog. The Lion King itself has been playing this theatre since 1999!!Anyway… it occurred to me during the pre-show conversation with Amy and her friend Elizabeth, that I hadn’t even seen the movie, so it would all be new to me. Amy had seen the musical before so she knew to choose seats on the aisle (not to mention 6 rows from the front, thankyouverymuch).
The grand entrance at the beginning was by far (to me anyway) the most impressive scene of the evening with the procession of all the “animals” coming through the aisles toward the stage. The costumes, which were a combination of wardrobe and puppeteering, stole the show. Not that the singing and the music weren’t entertaining, mind you, it just seems I was drawn more to trying to figure out how they made their costumes “work” than listening to the performance. Visually stimulating? Yeah, you could say so.
Still, all in all, a very enjoyable evening.
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