Genre : Broadway
Running Time : 2 hr. 45 min. (includes 1 intermission)

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The music by Tim Rice, Elton John, Hans Zimmer and Lebo M. is particularly moving. The Lion King musical is a spectacular showing of artistry, complete with elaborate costumes, puppets, and songs specially added for the musical. Actors wear unique costumes and some perform their roles atop stilts, much to the amazement and delight of the audience. The entire production comes to a reality with the music soaring.

Seeing this show is a completely different experience than watching the movie. Children and adults alike can revel in the sweeps of emotion skillfully portrayed by the talented cast. This performance is not to be missed!
   This production, directed and designed by Julie Taymor, features a talented cast of over forty actors and an extensive crew. Everyone who attends a show is boggled at how one of the most successful animated films in history is somehow recreated on stage right before their eyes. The songs by Elton John, Tim Rice, South African composer Lebo M and music producer Mark Mancina are even better live than the compact disc versions.
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The Lion King seemed impossible. The epic conflict between lions worked beautifully in animated film - but on stage? But Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner and Disney Theatricals Producers Peter Schneider and Thomas Schumacher believed in the power of The Lion King's story. They turned to Julie Taymor, a director and designer well known for mythical staging inspired by international theatrical forms. Taymor was excited by the challenge. "When I looked at the film ... I said to myself, what is working in this film for me? What's the most daunting challenge? That's what I like to do -- the sheer fact that it's very hard to do is a great challenge to me."

COSTUMES, MASKS AND PUPPETS
The Lion King is unique in that we see how the magic works on stage. There's no attempt to cover up the wheels and cogs that make it all happen. The human beings that control the puppets and wear the animal masks are fully seen. As an audience member at The Lion King you have an important job: With your imagination, you are invited to mix the "animal" with the human into a magical whole. As Julie Taymor says, "When the human spirit visibly animates an object, we experience a special, almost life-giving connection. We become engaged by both the method of storytelling as well as the story itself."

"Disney animated characters are so expressive -- they're animals, but they're very human animals," Taymor continues. "I had to play with keeping some of the 'character' of the Disney characters, so that they're recognizable. But then, I was also very inspired by African masks, which are much more abstract, much more stylized, much more essential, less soft and round. Because we're doing three-dimensional theater, I didn't want the faces to look flat, I wanted them to have a kind of depth, like wood has. So I used texture and organic materials, fibers, wood -- things that would make it less cartoonlike."

"In contrast to the continually changing facial expressions in the animated film, a mask can project a single, fixed attitude," she says. "The sculptor has only one opportunity to incorporate the anger, humor, and passion of a character, to tell his or her whole story."

"I thought, what if I create these giant masks that really are clearly Scar and Mufasa, but then the human face is revealed below, so that you're not losing the human facial expression, you're not hiding the actor?"

To create the masks and puppets in The Lion King Taymor worked with Michael Curry, one of the country's leading puppet experts. Curry had worked with Taymor on several of her films and operas. With background in engineering as well as puppetry, he would create the technical design of the characters.

Taymor and Curry's first step in creating the theatrical world of The Lion King was to craft the masks for Mufasa and Scar. Could a balance be found between the recognizable characters from the animated film and the human actors?

The lions' costumes also helped to create this duality. While the human qualities of the lions come out in the African-styled beadwork, corsets, armor, and cloth, the costumes use silk cloth to negate the human shape, breaking the shoulder line, enhancing the powerful joints and thighs.

Here are some of the theatrical forms that inspired Julie Taymor and Michael Curry in creating the theatrical world of The Lion King. By exploring the background of these techniques, The Lion King can be made a richer experience for young people. It's important to emphasize that Taymor and Curry studied these forms for years, and used the raw knowledge they had gained to create the new forms of The Lion King.

AFRICAN MASKS
In Africa, masks are functional works of art. They are meant to be used; they perform a social function. Seen on a wall or on a table, a mask may seem dull and static, but when used in storytelling or a ceremony, it takes on life. As in The Lion King many African masks are made to be worn over the head instead of over the face. They serve many ceremonial purposes: initiating a young man into manhood, exorcising evil spirits, capturing the invisible supernatural forces surrounding us. African masks are sometimes referred to as "spirit traps." From a purely theatrical point of view, how does a mask trap a spirit? Discuss this question in regard to Taymor's quote, "a mask can project a single, fixed attitude. The sculptor has only one opportunity to incorporate the anger, humor, and passion of a character, to tell his or her whole story."Do you live near New York? Want to see Lion King? We have good news! Lion King will be visiting New York! We've got the Lion King New York schedule at TL. Fortunately, you can buy cheap Lion King New York tickets worry-free here at TL. You can also find the full Lion King schedule for New York at TL. When it comes to Lion King tickets, New York seats will surely be tough to get. Purchase your New York theater tickets now to see the Lion King tour live!

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