Lion King

WELL!
It's been absolutely forever since I really thought about writing something, and I don't have much to say. But I realized I only have 3 weeks left here and I haven't really written about much adventures here! The problem is, some of the adventures are a bit inappropriate to share. If we talk on a regular basis, then you already know. An exciting milestone in my life has been going to a London town musical. We saw the Lion King, a musical made off the Disney movie (so you know that was on point). Let's delve a little deeper into how on point it really was.

Lion King is a movie about a lion who's, uh, a king. I was a bit iffy about how realistic they could really make this, because I was pretty sure they couldn't train lions to talk, sing, act, etc. Luckily, these people are geniuses when it comes to costumes and mechanisms to make stuff work. For example, Scar's head was like fixed to some wiring on his back so that when the actual actor put his head down, Scar's mask head would move to cover the actor's head. Hard to explain but freaking cool to look at. The lines were almost identical to the movie, so I felt like I was watching the movie in real life on a stage. Zazu was hilarious. THe guy playing him is an absolute nut, which made it even better to watch. The death scene was amazing, with simple effects (that looked great) to show all the wildebeests running, and scaffolding for Mufasa's death fall. The only complaint I had about the entire production was that Simba as a young cub SUCKED. He was very full of life and all but his acting sucked. I wasn't even sad when Mufasa died (whereas when I watch the movie I'm usually on the verge of tears). On the other hand, Nala as a cub and grown up was amazing, though. She had a beautiful singing voice and was very realistic with the acting. I won't spoil anymore if you'd like to watch, so to end I say you better go watch that.

Alex and I really want to go watch Dirty Dancing sometime soon. Thursday I'm going to some classical concert where they'll be playing the 1812 Overture with inside cannons and everything. Can't wait!