This was a pretty spectacular show, out of all the shows I've seen this wins hands down in terms of large scale productions. The number of cast members must have been enormous, and the puppets were awesome. Seriously the opening number with an elephant on stage, that's pretty cool. The story is basically the same as the movie, so no surprises there, you do have to put up with child actors for the first half, but thankfully they don't reappear in the second.
Obviously it is a fairly child dominated audience, especially if you go to a weekend matinee like we did. That's fine, you can handle the extra noise, since it is the Lion King afterall. What is strange are the mother's though. Whilst we were watching one mother behind us thought it was fine to let her child chat the whole way through, and spent the entire show discussing the plot with it. That was kind of annoying, but what really detracted from the whole Lion King atmosphere, was the other mother sitting in front of her, who wanted to tear her face off because she wouldn't be quiet.
If you go, go to a late showing, preferably during the week, and be prepared for mothers.
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