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| - Overall, just okay. I can see why they are ending the run in December.
The ticketing process:
I had a chip on my shoulder going into the performance. You see, the day of the show you can get a student discount on the remaining "best available" seats with a valid student ID. We got there at 8:50 am before the counter opened at 9 am (more like 9:03am). Right beforehand, we printed out what seats were available and had an idea where we wanted to sit. The guy at the counter, Antonio or something like that, didn't want to honor the student discount and then refused to give us the best available aka good seats. He tried to convince us that the seats available on the Mandalay Bay website are not the same ones available at the Mandalay Box Office. That makes no sense. So we got totally screwed in that regard, we were all the way over to the right side, so it was not as magical of an experience.
The show:
Being my third time to see the Lion King musical (LA, Toronto, Las Vegas), I would say this is the weakest of the three performances. I know the soundtrack by heart and I noticed the cast was making some of the songs their own, not mimicing the way the original Broadway cast sings them. I have mixed feelings about that because all of the songs were so perfectly sung by the original cast. Two of my favorite songs, 'They Live in You' and 'Shadowlands,' were not as good as I had hoped. Oh, and it was also the third best young Nala/Simba cast that I have encountered as well.
So, overall, just average.
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