Lion King

Wednesday 18th November 2015

We went to see the Lion King at the theatre in Waterloo. I was surprised at the production it turned out to be even more colorful than I expected....it was actually quite beautiful.
The actors individual performances were a great representation of the original cartoon characters. They had added effects within the show for example they had the scene just as Young Simba was about to get eaten by the Hyena's in the elephant graveyard and before he was about to get eaten and they began to sing a song that wasn't in the film. Things like that I had to take a while to get use to but with an eventuality I did. Overall I believe the performance was great and the fact that us students got in for free that did not take any value away from my experience. We went with Charlie to watch the show. I personally took alot away from the performance in terms of acting techniques, especially because they are doing things that I look to be doing in the future.
We also had the opportunity to meet 2 of the actors in the performance for a Q&A one of them being the actor who played Zazu and the other being the actor who played Nala. We asked them questions about the theatre business and how it's run for example 'has there been any mistakes during any performances? How long have you been in the business for? How many times have you performed this play?' etc. They answered all of our questions in the best way possible and did inform us of alot of things like the fact that they perform this play practically all year round which can get exhausting but for the people coming to watch it for the 1st time they want them to have as much of a great experience as anyone else who had come before.