Everyone should get a chance to watch The Lion King the Musical. The Best Broadway Ever.Trust me!
Price is not a price when you get to sit so near to the stage and so much detail of expression can be absorb into my eyes and my soul. To really appreciate the performance, best seat is always in 'best price'. Expectation are always following the price. This the reality of performance. I pay this for the props, the sets, for the efforts of the performers and the crews, everything will be so worthy.
The Lion King Musical have been performing around the world for more than a decade, and finally they drop in Singapore Marina Bay Sands, but why not in Malaysia? (will figure it out later.) But I believe,for the newly open Sands Theater is wise enough to invite The Lion King to be the powerful opening introduce to the world. The Lion King in Singapore will be held for 3 months long from starts of March until 31 of May.
I watched it on 2nd of April 2011, a Saturday night. Ticket price: 188 sgd.(well , i guess if in Malaysia, the price rates are the same), just that i need to spend some money on Travel and accommodation.
Before show starts, i did some shopping in the Lion King Souvenir shop and bought a program book and a mini Simba Puppet model. Well and detail finishing cost 40sgd. Mean while , I was struggling to buy a Simba soft toy cost 35 sgd, but I didn't bought it. Probably will ask my friend to buy when he is going on May.
My seat was at the left zone ,4th Row from the stage and just beside the aisle. Is this a good seat? Am I too front? OMG, the speaker is just in front of us!
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amazing opening and ending with happening of animals puppets and the richness of the classic LION KING MUSIC. |
All the disturbing question just flew off when the Rafiki, the Baboon voice out her famous song, the Circle of Life. hm... the sound system was a bit out of my expectation, I thought it will be really stunning, but it doesn't.
NVM, continually appears the combination of humanism and animal-ism, That was WOW!!!
LOOK, from the back! elephants, baby elephants, birds, giraffe, deer..remember i was sitting beside the aisle? everything just happen in front of me! Nearly touch them~
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| One of my beloved puppet of leopard (left). The amazing part was when the actress who acting the leopard was so in motion, she definitely blend her soul with the character. |
In creating the lions’ costumes, director/designer Julie Taymor used an abundance of silk and natural fabrics with lots of texture to ensure each costume blends naturally with the performers to project cat-like, fluid movements. The fabric is typically made to order, rather than cut from bolts of cloth. By incorporating organic and handmade materials in her- words from shimworld.wordpress.-
innovative costume design, Taymor transforms African beading into a lion’s white belly, a collar of horsehair into a baboon’s chest and burnt peacock feathers into Mufasa’s majestic crown. Taymor and Michael Curry, one of the world’s leading puppet experts, created hundreds of intricate masks and puppets for the show. Uniquely, the mask design enables the audience to see the characters as animal and human at the same time, an effect Taymor dubs ‘the double event.’ The audience at THE LION KING, then, has an important job: the imagination joins the ‘animal’ with the human into a magical whole.
