Originally Posted By wahooskipper Other than Fantasmic! the Lion King show is my favorite Disney...heck ANY theme park...live show.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Unless they have changed the name, I am sure you mean the Buffalo Bill dinner show.<< Yes, that is what I meant. Thank you for correcting me.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan i have seen the lion king show twice now and love it. i have even taped it. It has amazing music, dancing, and very well themed. I love the seating, its called theatre in the round so everyone can see it from all around!!! the performers were amazing!!!
Originally Posted By Blackie Pueblo You know what's cool about it too? The fact that when the show is over you can come down to the floor and stand right in front of the Lion King puppets and take pics. How many shows let you get right next to the things like that? Blackie Pueblo
Originally Posted By CMDad << ... a portable stage as if it is a traveling circus.>> If I remember correctly, the first few words spoken are "We are a traveling band of entertainers ..."
Originally Posted By LuvDatDisney Compared to what else passes for live entertainment at WDW these days, FotLK should get a Tony!
Originally Posted By kennect My menitoning the Broadway connection is based on my frustration with Disney taking their own material and trying to present it on so many different levels...Top dollar Broadway presentations don't seem to get in their way of creating low dollar theme parks shows based on the same material...The live shows presented at WDW could be much much better than they are...But then again how many live shows are left these days at WDW? VBdad, One can the see the Broadway show or tour for much less than two hundred dollars.... I due truly wish though they would kill the "Beauty" show at the studio park...It is just awful, old and so very tired....Another example of how little they care in Fl. as to what is presented as live entertainment in the parks...Bring back the old Dick Tracy show...It was a lot more fun and entertaining to me but I doubt others would agree....
Originally Posted By kennect And I didn't quite finish above...My even bigger frustration is knowing that we are getting shafted here in the states when it comes to overall live entertainment in the parks...They simply won't spend the money to keep things new and fresh...
Originally Posted By TDLFAN MK's "Cinderellabration" is an example of that. Concidering they are advertizing this show as an excuse to visit the MK during the "happiest celebration", the show itself could have been as glorious as the one version from TDL, but they chose the easy cheap way out.
Originally Posted By kennect OK TDL, Your comment is the perfect example...How much more effort would it have taken WDW to make this presentation truly the spectacular one it is at TDL? I doubt very much...As presented it just comes across as another lame castle forecourt show...TDL's presentation made the audience part of it with all of those extra's WDW left out....Am I wrong?
Originally Posted By TDLFAN You are absolutely right. The fact that TDL does this show at night, with extra visuals projected on the castle, 4 times more Cast members on stage, and fiber optic sparkles all over the stage (To name a few of those extras missing in the MK's version) would have been a sight to behold. However, the MK's forecourt Stage has it's space and size limitations... Remember..everything they do at TDL is usually done in the bigger scale that the park itself really is.. A small side show at TDL, such as "Minnie O' Minnie" in Adventureland is *bigger* than the MK's Cinderellabration, if you can believe that, and even the "MO'M" stage is smaller than the MK Forecourt stage!!!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <VBdad, One can the see the Broadway show or tour for much less than two hundred dollars.... < depends on what show and what day of the week and where you want to sit to see the show though.... The point is you are looking for a great experience, not a good one-- so a few hundred would be in line. Otherwise why compare the two ? One is an attraction, one of many, and the other is the only reason you go to the building. I am not saying that the shows couldn;t be better, I just thought the comparison to a Broadway production was apples and oranges. Kind of like comparing a city bus and a Mercedes 500 SL as means of transportion....both will get you somewhere but really the comparison stops there
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <And I didn't quite finish above...My even bigger frustration is knowing that we are getting shafted here in the states when it comes to overall live entertainment in the parks...They simply won't spend the money to keep things new and fresh...< I know a lot of shows got cut back after 9/11 -- but I did think they would return when the crowds did. I agree that the amount of live entertainment is down from even 10 years ago.....but my concern is that once again, like those who argue that EPCOT shouldn't edu-tain as much any more because the masses want thrills -- I am not sure the masses are clamoring for more live entertainment. I am not saying I agree with that either.
Originally Posted By kennect VB, you are sitting in Chicago right now and I know for a fact you don't have to pay two hundred dollars to see The Lion King, if it is still there...Didn't it just leave?..Even, Wicked with its open run show there doesn't get close to that amount unless you want to buy vip tickets and still they aren't that much...Top dollar for Lion King on tour is well under a hundred dollars...And yes I am expecting a great time from a theme park show...But I am also smart enough to realize what that means...I just feel the Lion King show at AK falls short since in my mind the whole thing seemed to be based around a leftover float they had from a parade...I don't care for Tarzan Rocks either....My last favorite theme park show at WDW was the Hunchback presentation at the studio park...I personally thought it was somewhat original and creative in the way it was presented...We need shows in Fl. that actually run their course and get changed out for something different at least once in a great moon...Not the endless run that all of the shows seem to be enjoying....
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Paid $235 per ticket ( and that was not top $ level) to see Spamalot ....8th row to the right. <We need shows in Fl. that actually run their course and get changed out for something different at least once in a great moon...Not the endless run that all of the shows seem to be enjoying....< No that I don't agree with you here...but that would take a lot of creativity and $$ for manpower -- neither of which seems to be long in supply right now for live shows. The question I have raised however is that fine, you and I want to see that, and a number of people who frequent here. But what about Joe visitor....is it quality live shows or more go fast rides they want. Unfortunately, unless I miss my guess it is the latter, and that is who they are going to cater to the most-- right or wrong.
Originally Posted By kennect VB, If you paid that much please tell me where you bought the tickets...I can't find anything relating to Spamalot that is even close to that figure....
Originally Posted By barboy Disney markets FOTLK as "big-as-Broadway" and word on the street is that this attraction is a must see when touring Walt Dis. World. I ask how????. Why does this 2nd rate show receive so much positive attention among the masses? I find Tarzan Rocks superior. Aladdin(beautifully choreographed, a sound storyline and 1st class seating arrangements)out west at the Cal Adv. is by far the finest Disney stage show and yet I don't hear much about it.
