BuggleBoo
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Favorite sceneWhat's your favorite scene from the show? Which scene touched you the most?
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wicked_boy
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Opening, all the visual with them interacting with the audience, then in the boxes, then with pride rock.
I lvoe how it start simple iwth Rafiki the only person / thing, then the entire stage is changed and the entire cast becomes invovled.
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pish123c
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I dislike the show, but the opening is brilliant.
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wicked_boy
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^ I loved it when I saw it, it was like two years ago (the age where I loved pratically any show). The opening is amazing, but I can't remember any lines / other parts that really stood out.
I can remember Zazu saying when the curtains come down in I just can't wait, "Eugh, they must have been to Ikea."
Ikea is like a DIY / Furniture store BTW.
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Luc
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I saw it on Broadway last year and it wasn't very good. The opening was phenomenal. I cried. But it was completely downhill from there. Ugghhh. $111 down the tube.
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RainbowJude
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Favourite ScenesMy favourite scene is still the opening sequence, where I think all the elements of staging come together with music and lyric in a truly compelling manner. From a visual point of view, I also really like the scene where Mufasa's face appears in the second act.
I must say that as far as the score goes, I think that "Shadowlands", which has music by Hans Zimmer and lyrics by Lebo M and Marc Mancina, is phenomenal. While it isn't a "Rose's Turn" or "Moments in the Woods" in terms of its technical complexity, there is no need for it to be. There is a bare, honest simplicity in a lot of African music and I feel that of the English language songs, this one captures that raw feeling most closely. It's so incredibly appropriate to the setting and the context of the show. Similarly, "Endless Night", which has music by Lebo M, Zimmer and Jay Rifkin and lyrics by Julie Taymor, captures a figurative turn of phrase that also so carefully observed in terms of its Africanness.
Of course, for me, listening to the African language material - the isicathamiya-style "One by One", the hunting song of the lionesses and Rafiki's mourning lament - is just magical.
I think the Elton John/Tim Rice songs - particularly the new additions to the score ("The Morning Report", "Chow Down") and excluding "Circle of Life" - are less successful.
While I think the show has it's problems - most significantly, I feel that interval falls in the wrong place, thereby affecting the dramatic arc of the play as a whole; the book is padded a little too much with things like the Timon in the waterfall sequence and innumerable fart jokes; the staging isn't sometimes as sophisticated as it could be; and as mentioned above, the new Rice/John songs aren't particularly stong pieces, I think it's far from a waste of time and money, particularly if you have an excellent cast.
Later days
David
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Luc
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I definitely also agree with He Lives in You with Mufasa's huge head or whatever... and then after that they have the cool lighting effect that makes the Ensemble look like their heads are just floating around without bodies... VERY cool.
I also really love One By One - not the scene itself, but the music. It has always been my favorite song on the OBCR. I have it as my alarm in the morning. lol
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wicked_boy
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^ I love He Lives in You with the head.
My favourite song for the stage verison is Endless Night.
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Luc
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| wicked_boy wrote: | | My favourite song for the stage verison is Endless Night. |
Hehe... when I saw it on Broadway, Simba's voice cracked a grand total of THREE times in that song!! 0_o It is quite a vocally demanding song, but it just wrecked it for me. lol 
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theg8whiteway
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Circle of Life - One By One, He Lives In Me, Can you Feel The Love Tonight
My favorite Scene: Rafiki Mourns
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RainbowJude
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isicathamiya | musikal_geek wrote: | | I also really love "One By One" - not the scene itself, but the music. It has always been my favorite song on the OBCR. I have it as my alarm in the morning. |
I don't know whether you will find this interesting or not, but just in case...
"One by One" is written in the style of isicathamiya, a ritualistic song and dance form that originated on the gold mines in South Africa. On Sundays, the workers had leisure time during which they shared songs, dances and stories from their own respective cultures. The songs were accompanied by a dance, in which the feet were stamped. The stamping broke the wooden floors and cracked the concrete floors in the hostels and the mine managers outlawed the dancing. A different dance, which was done on tiptoe, was then used to accompany the songs. This dancing is known in Zulu as “cathama” and thus the name given to these songs – isicathamiya – was born.
On the mines, the workers would share their memories from home and create songs to a fixed rhythm from these stories, using only their voices as instruments. Traditionally, women were not allowed to sing isicathamiya and even when the songs were taken to the villages and townships by the miners, only men and boys sang the songs. In the villages, the topics of the songs became more relevant to the issues of the region.
Later, the songs became political in nature. During the 1920s, isicathamiya were sung at the meetings of trade unions and in the 1980s, isicathamiya were sung at UDF and COSATU meetings to express worker solidarity and opposition to apartheid.
Later days
David
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Justin-D
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I basically love any scene with Rafiki, espicially if she is a good Rafiki, even better if she is a Rafiki from SA who "knows what she is talking about" when she chants.
Im not really impressed by Rafikis who have to learn the chant as a foreign language and end up repeating it like from a tape recorder every show.
Mind you at the last show i saw some kid next to me asked his mom if Rafiki was a clown. lol.
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Fantine
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| wicked_boy wrote: | ^ I love He Lives in You with the head.
My favourite song for the stage verison is Endless Night. |
Those two, the opening and 'The Stampede' which is amazingly done IMO.
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santtu
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Opening scene, "Circle of life". Simply stunning.
Sadly, once that scene is over the show starts to lose its steam. By the time we get to the (badly extended) "Be prepared" scene the show is dragging.
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Bellis
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Circle of life and Shadowland
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wicked_boy
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| Fantine wrote: | | wicked_boy wrote: | ^ I love He Lives in You with the head.
My favourite song for the stage verison is Endless Night. |
Those two, the opening and 'The Stampede' which is amazingly done IMO. |
I love the Stampede, it confused me when I saw it though.
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actor
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I saw the show last week on Broadway and I liked all of Scar's scenes the best. He was the only character I found interesting. I liked his cave scene and Be Prepared. Circle of Life was visually stunning and I liked the scenes with all the African dancers singing African music but to me the show was just a spectacle with little substance. But how much can you expect from a Disney show? lol
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navada
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The opening sequence. Brilliant. Simply brilliant.
The scene where Mufasa's head forms. Amazing, and powerful not just in terms of how it appears, but what it tells us about Simba and his complex emotions at this point in the show.
The wildebeest stampede. I literally held my breath as the wildebeest came closer and closer, and grew larger and larger ...
Wow!
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Remme
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All of it was absolutely amazing, but my favourite scene would have to be The Stampede.
I'd never seen anything like it before, and I've not seen anything like it since, either.
It left me breathless. ^_^
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