Research Paper On The Lion King
Musicals – A Review of the Lion King
Walt Disney’s beloved film The Lion King has been transformed by the brilliant director Julie Taymor created into a theatrical experience that has won over 70 awards including the 1999 Grammy for the Best Musical Show album. “There is simply nothing like it.” - The New York Times. The Lion King Musical has been running since 1997 and it is still currently running. The actors of the Lion King Musical are still the same with only minor changes. The Lion King has been seen by over 50 million people worldwide. The Lion King is an international hit with it showing currently over 10 different countries worldwide.
The well-known composers of the music in The Lion King include Elton John and the lyrics created …show more content…
He achieved it by adding in African flavours to the music with raw emotions. The music is especially effective when they have character songs. The Lion King has the talent of creating character music incorporating deep emotions at times to cheerful emotions. The music was relevant to the times when it’s needed. For example, when Simba gets blamed by Scar for killing his own dad, the music as well as the tempo changes dramatically. It helped bring the musical into everyone’s feelings. The music can be contemplative, like when Simba looks inside the water and see the reflection of his …show more content…
One of the actors, Rob Collins who is an indigenous actor and portrays the character “Mufasa” on the stage. His acting performance was sly and like a fox style. His singing had a darker sense of vocals to it which, is one of Mufasa’s evil characteristic. The whole cast on the musical is a so big that they have 4 people portraying as “Young Simba” and 4 people portraying as “Young Nala”. Their overall performance was for them quite exhausting since they jump around and move around fairly often, but their performance was great.
The sound and lighting worked cohesively as if they were a team. The lighting was mainly capturing everyone’s eyes to the actors, the sound effects were incredibly loud and there was 2 people on left and right of the stage on the balcony playing the African drums and maraca. The set design was cleverly hidden with more than 2 scenes before another act appears. They used glass screens creatively too. It made the musical flow well like water flowing down a river. The sets were quite shocking. You can tell just on the first set, how much effort everyone spent on
Walt Disney’s beloved film The Lion King has been transformed by the brilliant director Julie Taymor created into a theatrical experience that has won over 70 awards including the 1999 Grammy for the Best Musical Show album. “There is simply nothing like it.” - The New York Times. The Lion King Musical has been running since 1997 and it is still currently running. The actors of the Lion King Musical are still the same with only minor changes. The Lion King has been seen by over 50 million people worldwide. The Lion King is an international hit with it showing currently over 10 different countries worldwide.
The well-known composers of the music in The Lion King include Elton John and the lyrics created …show more content…
He achieved it by adding in African flavours to the music with raw emotions. The music is especially effective when they have character songs. The Lion King has the talent of creating character music incorporating deep emotions at times to cheerful emotions. The music was relevant to the times when it’s needed. For example, when Simba gets blamed by Scar for killing his own dad, the music as well as the tempo changes dramatically. It helped bring the musical into everyone’s feelings. The music can be contemplative, like when Simba looks inside the water and see the reflection of his …show more content…
One of the actors, Rob Collins who is an indigenous actor and portrays the character “Mufasa” on the stage. His acting performance was sly and like a fox style. His singing had a darker sense of vocals to it which, is one of Mufasa’s evil characteristic. The whole cast on the musical is a so big that they have 4 people portraying as “Young Simba” and 4 people portraying as “Young Nala”. Their overall performance was for them quite exhausting since they jump around and move around fairly often, but their performance was great.
The sound and lighting worked cohesively as if they were a team. The lighting was mainly capturing everyone’s eyes to the actors, the sound effects were incredibly loud and there was 2 people on left and right of the stage on the balcony playing the African drums and maraca. The set design was cleverly hidden with more than 2 scenes before another act appears. They used glass screens creatively too. It made the musical flow well like water flowing down a river. The sets were quite shocking. You can tell just on the first set, how much effort everyone spent on