Lion King Broadway/West End

This was my first ever show on Broadway and I'm probably being biased but I think the West End is much more friendly. My first impression of Broadway was having my bag checked by security to make sure I was not 'smuggling' and food or dring into the theatre. I know you're not supposed to even in the West End but they just go with it. I also found out the hard way that you are not allowed to take photos before the performance when an usher threatened to take my camera off me! I wasn't even thaking photo's of the set or anything, just me and my friends! Anyway, now rant is over i will get on with the review...
The Circle Of Life is always amazing with the animals on stage especially the elephant! The Morning Report always annoys me and I don't know why, it's just one of those songs! The boy who played young Simba was a better actor than the one I saw in the West End (but this may be because he had an American accent like Simba in the film which i'm used to watching). The children in it always seem to be amazingly talented which showed in I Just Can't Wait To Be king. I love Chow Down just because I think Shenzi is always hilarious! I couldn't decide which Shenzi was better (US or UK) because they were both quite different although at first I thought UK. both my friends were trying so hard not to sing along with Hakuna Matata which was rther amusing! I always forget about Shadow Land which is really bad because I love that song! I also love Endless Night and He Lives In You (which was in my head all day before the show and all of the day after the show!) and Simba was better than in the UK although it was weird at first because in the UK he had an African accent and this time he had an American accent. In King Of Pride Rock/The Circle Of Life Reprise I was sad because I knew it was nearly finished! All the people I was with really enjoyed the show although only a few of us stood up at the end so I looked like a right plonker XD

Upcoming Reviews!!!

I'm going to see wicked on 13th February 2010 for my third time and I'm hoping to write a review however whenever I see the show it always seems like a dream and I just forget what happened and also I'm sitting way up in the circle so I might not be able to see too well. I was going so I could see the cast one last time before they all leave so I was really dissapointed to hear that Oli Tompsett who plays Fiyero is away. Then I found out that Dianne Pilkington who plays Glinda is away too which made me sad because she's my idol and the one person I really desperately wanted to see. Anyway, I'm now quite excited to see Sarah Earnshaw as Glinda and am hoping that it will be a Greyshaw show because Ashleigh Gray is my favourite Elphaba! If I do a review I will try to do it asap because on the 17th i'm going to New York. When I'm there I'm going to see The Lion King on BROADWAY!!!! So there will hopefully be another review and I can compare it to the London show which I recently saw too! Oh yeah I'm also going to LAMDA on the 13th for a technical theatre and stage management open day which should be exciting so I might write about that a bit too! Well thats al really, apologies for the mahoosive update but I needed to have a rant about not seeing Dianne XD