After all, most Hollywood and network stars first realized their acting abilities on a stage. Despite their age, these performances consistently re-surge in theaters across the globe, recalling their brilliance and the timeless art of acting. Theater playwrights like William Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, and Harold Pinter hold prominence in the history of theater, gracing the stage with such plays as Romeo and Juliet, The Crucible, and No Man’s Land. From Macbeth to The Book of Mormon, theater plays both young and old continue to dazzle theater audiences every year. Leaping far beyond its celluloid inspiration, the stage version improves upon nearly every aspect of the hit 1994 animated film, from visual artistry and storytelling to Lebo M's score and the newly African-ized pop songs of Elton John and Tim Rice.The theater has a long tradition in world culture as both an art form and means of entertainment, providing a plethora of plays, musicals, magic shows, ballets, circus performances, and operas for every kind of viewer. "Julie Taymor's staging of Disney's The Lion King is a marvel, a theatrical achievement unrivaled in its beauty, brains and ingenuity. If this is Disney's idea of a theme park, we are delighted to report that the theme is quality." The unprecedented production is worth every penny. The show and the playhouse are enchanting. Such is the transporting magic wrought by the opening 10 minutes of The Lion King, Taymor has introduced a whole new vocabulary of images to the Broadway blockbuster." You can only marvel at the exotic procession of animals before you: the giraffes and the elephants and the hippopotamuses and all those birds in balletic flight. Suddenly, you're 4 years old again, and you've been taken to the circus for the first time. "Seen purely as a visual tapestry, there is simply nothing else like it. The show appeals to our primal, childlike excitement in the power of theater to make us see things afresh." Most important - against all odds - it has innocence.
it's a gorgeous, gasp-inducing spectacle. Taymor's imaginative ideas seem limitless. "Awe-inspiring! Broadway theater is alive again. "The breathtakingly staged Broadway adaptation of Disney's king of the cartoon jungle is an instant theater classic."
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