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It is beautiful to experience the unified joy that The Lion King’s story still provides audiences. Additionally, the use of dancers to portray the grasslands, bushes and trees is mesmerizing and works because the rest of the set design is clean and uncluttered, allowing the dancers to shine. It’s not easy to anthropomorphize beloved animal characters into a human musical, but The Lion King’s success comes from the use of movement, dance and Garth Fagan’s brilliantly musical choreography. The way that Scar and Mufasa’s masks were able to rise up and down over their face gave tremendous opportunity for the actors to use movement to their advantage in a way that a traditional costume would not. Much has already been written about the exquisitely detailed and creative costumes, which were no doubt jaw-dropping, but as a dancer, what I found most interesting was how their construction not just enabled but also challenged the actors and dancers to use movement with their head, shoulders and torso to manipulate the masks and puppets in a way that added such depth to the portrayals. Gerald Caesar and company in ‘The Lion King’ North American Tour. The lionesses through dance and song continue to hold the pride together after Mufasa’s death, when Scar takes over power, bringing Pride Rock into ruin while he bitterly complains to his hyena minions (hilariously played by Martina Sykes, Keith Bennett and Robbie Swift) about how maligned he is being treated.

The almost six-foot tall actress and dancer was the embodiment of female strength and power, a role model as poignant today as when The Lion King premiered 20 years ago. Mark Campbell, as the treacherous, scheming lion Scar, brought the curtain back up by delivering his line “Life’s not fair” in a deliciously sinister way.Ītlanta native Nia Holloway, who has played grown-up Nala over 2,000 times in the touring production, gave a memorable performance to a cheering home town crowd. It was impossible to wipe the smile off our eager faces at Thursday’s performance, even when a technical snafu prompted a momentary pause in the show at the end of the big first number, “The Circle of Life”. Gerald Caesar as Simba in ‘The Lion King’ North American Tour.