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| - So when your cheap ass decides that taking in a show in Vegas doesn't mean walking up and down the strip and watching a volcano, some water fly up and down, and some half naked sirens dancing in strobe lights, take in the Lion King at Mandalay Bay.
Marketed as the #1 show in Las Vegas or something to that point, I was wondering whether or not we could score a deal (seeing as though we were in Las Vegas for a weekend, in the middle of the summer season), or if it would be sold out. Went to the box office on a Saturday morning and scored some tickets for the 8PM show that night. Awesome deal they have if you're a (broke) college student like myself. Same day tickets are $20 with college ID!! (2 per ID.) You have to ask for the college thing, otherwise they will suck you into their regular price range (starts around $70 I think) without skipping a heartbeat. We got awesome seats dead center which were normally around $100 for only $20 + LET! Great steal.
The show itself was alright. The orchestra was great, and the stage scenery was pure Disney, with the use of hydraulics to raise Pride Rock from the stage floor, amazing! Timon and Pumbaa were quite funny, probably the highlight of the show. It follows the movie to point, other than the Scar-Nala thing that others mentioned. There were minor annoyances like crying babies, cell phones going off periodically. The group sitting behind us seemed bored, because they were yawning (the LOUD yawns with the huffing and mumbling and all) throughout. The couple in front of us, left at intermission and didn't return. So I guess it's each to their own.
I for one couldn't get over the fact that I paid $20 while people sitting BEHIND me paid $90-100 for the seats. (Even those who went for Half Price Tixfor2nite, I saw Lion King listed for over $50) Do not miss out on this steal of a deal. For a mid-summer, Saturday, 8PM show, it was not even close to full, there were so many available seats, so Hakuna Matata, I suggest you go for same day tickets and save some for the blackjack mesas.
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