I was fortunate that a friend got tickets to view The Lioin King when I made my most recent trip to Shanghai.
The show was very well done, with elaborate costumes and set. I loved the interaction of the cast with the audience. It was a very self-reflexive performance, with addresses made to the audience being done very effectively. The costumes were especially wonderful, mimicking animals’ movements, without trying to BE animals.
With that awareness that the performance is
always imitation well in place, the actors were able to pull off the “deception” very well.
There were only 2 disappointments in my theatre experience. First, I was seated in the second level, next to a partition separating the two sections of the balcony from each other. The centre section was used during the performance, and the partition caused just a slight obstacle.
While it wasn’t important to the viewing experience that I be able to see what was going ...