Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Time: 7:45 AM
Song: Can You Feel
the Love Tonight
Artist: Joseph
Williams, Sall Dworsky, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Kristie Edwards
Mode of Consumption:
Listening to MP3s on shuffle on the way to work.
One of the first big gifts that I remember buying Jodi was tickets to see the Lion King stage production in Milwaukee. I remember it being cold out, and that we ate somewhere downtown near the theatre.
The production I remember being stirring and spectacular. Actors dressed in elaborate animal costumes opened the show, coming down the aisles and from off stage. The chanting and the drums and the singing. Simba presented to the horde.
It’s amazing what can be accomplished in the theatre. One moment, we are sitting in a theatre surrounded by the frigid winter temperatures of the Midwestern United States, and the next we can feel like we are on the African savanna.
We can forget that the person singing is a person, our belief
suspended. That really is a lion cub. Or baboon. Or warthog.
I don’t believe we can be transported the same way with films. It’s a different experience. You can almost reach out and touch these characters when they are on stage. You can feel it. The emotions. The excitement. The danger. The desire. The love.
I know we live in an era where you can stream pretty much any piece of entertainment from our living room couch, but there’s something to seeing something live.
If you get the chance, watch Lion King on the stage. If not,
try any other show that might be near you.
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