The excitement for Disney’s The Lion King is getting almost palpable. Here are a few samples from what the local press has to say …
From The Badger Herald …
“When we went to Ohio, the opening number ended to a sound almost like an explosion as the lights blacked out and the audience went crazy. Then it got quiet and a little girl turns to her father and she said, ‘Is there more?’” Klaisner laughed. “I thought that was pretty cool because apparently that was enough for her. It’s pretty amazing.”
From 77 Square …
“It’s an amazing show for families,” said Amyia Burrell, an ensemble member who has been with the show for three years. “It is a great story … about life, and a father teaching his son a lesson about life and death and how the ones who have passed on never leave us.”
Burrell has played several roles in the show since she started, including a hyena, a lioness and a wildebeest.
“The puppet becomes a part of you,” she said, more so when the actor plays only one main role.
On Channel 3:
From Isthmus …
Crofton first saw The Lion King onstage in Toronto circa 1999. “It was transporting,” she says, “a visual extravaganza.” She remembers feeling swooped up by the emotional power of the experience.
Bringing the tour to Madison for a month means “about 70,000 people will come through the doors and into Overture Hall,” Crofton notes. That’s about 87.5% of capacity at Camp Randall Stadium — for a theatrical event. It also works out to the rough equivalent of almost one out of every three people in Madison, or 15% of all Dane County residents, carrying the shared experience of Lion King at Overture Hall.
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