Touring ‘The Lion King’ time-worn but still spectacular

 

Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

 

The recently released “The Lion King” film – with its computer-generated herds of zebras, elephants and antelope, its virtual Serengeti and its turbocharged skyscapes – has been universally praised for its remarkable photorealism. 

 

But while its state-of-the-art technology and $260 million production budget leave the audience awe-struck, the live-action stage production of “The Lion King” – on tour and, for the fourth time since 2003, at Playhouse Square – generates prolonged, heartfelt and well-earned “awws.”

 

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