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18:19 - The "Gazelle Company" Sets Out
http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/2002/2002-04-24-lion-king.htm
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Hey, look... The Lion King Broadway Musical is actually traveling.
Who knew it could be done? The stationary shows tend to take up entire three-story theaters with all their machinery, scenery, and so on. The traveling show uses 19 trucks to cart all that stuff around; I wonder how much different it is from the previous ones (it would have to be at least a little less ambitious, I'm sure, by necessity).
Of course, Julie Taymor seems to have faith in the venture's success:
But Schumacher isn't worrying about whether the show's technical considerations will prove daunting on the road. "Julie has said that you could do The Lion King on the back of a flatbed truck — because what really transports you is the mythic nature of the story and its wonderful music," he says.
Indeed. And in any case it'd be silly not to try, after all-- to say that the existing shows have been successful would be to do them a grave disservice through impoverishedness of language.
Granted, I'm not the world's hugest fan of the show. But I'll certainly want to see it if it rolls through Silicon Valley.
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