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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
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