Lion King Musical!

It was Nuthan's idea to go to this show, and I was the one so reluctant , coz I was so sure of it either would be too kiddish or a flop...or I would fail to relate the musical to the actual Lion King story...
It all happened because Lion King musical is so popular here...posters and ads at many places in London for example: most of the London Underground stations have their posters, and also many other busy areas...
This made Nuthan curious and urged him to book the tickets finally for a show on saturday, which came as a surprise to me on a friday evening!

I really never had any expectation, in fact was prepared for a boring rigid show... but was happy to go out for to do something new and experience the Lyceum Theatre - where Lion King musical show was on.
Apparently this show has been there since 1990 and is still on... :) We took a direct bus from the place where we stay, reached there at the Lyceum Theatre on time, Nuthan quickly collected the tickets from the box office and we were directed to our seats.

It was just too many stairs we climbed and climbed for about 4 floors and finally reached the entrance of the auditorium.
As we walked in we could see a refreshment bar, where everybody were scattered and chit chatting, they were all eager to get in for the show, so were we... finally got inside the auditorium!
I say, it was an amazing victorian style, rustic looking auditorium - probably a true auditorium, it was really a class..the interiors was really so well planned, and the spacing and the elevation between two rows were so appropriate and perfect, that all 2100 people could see the show without being interrupted by anybody's head coming in their way! The theatre in itself was marvellous...

The show was about to begin, everybody was in their seats busy operating their flashy shutters... n we saw that there was no seat left empty!
this kinda gave an impression to me that the show would definitely be a good one... Finally the lights of the auditorium went down as the stage curtains rolled up, layer by layer...

I just did not realize how 2.30 hours just went...puppetry was simply great and the sets looked so very original.
There was African Tribal singing in between which did not have the lyrics which I understood, but the tune and the emotions did depict the scene, it was stupendous!
story was engrossing, costumes were brilliant, every body on the stage probably had the Lion King in their blood, they were too good!
I was literally taken away from the city of London to a jungle for this 2.30 hours... :)

I thoroughly enjoyed my saturday evening...One of the amazing shows I have ever seen! Thanks to my DH :)