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The Lion King » Original Broadway Cast
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- Show: The Lion King (33)
- Music: Elton John (38), Solomon Linda -- Additional songs, Lebo M (14) -- Additional songs, Mark Mancina (12) -- Additional songs, Jay Rifkin (7) -- Additional songs, Pete Seeger -- Additional songs, Hans Zimmer (9) -- Additional songs
- Lyrics: Luigi Creatore (5) -- Additional songs, Solomon Linda -- Additional songs, Lebo M (14) -- Additional songs, Mark Mancina (12) -- Additional songs, Hugo Peretti (6) -- Additional songs, Tim Rice (91), Jay Rifkin (7) -- Additional songs, Julie Taymor (5) -- Additional songs, George Weiss (3) -- Additional songs
- Book: Roger Allers -- stage book, Irene Mecchi (2) -- screenplay & stage book, Jonathan Roberts -- screenplay, Linda Woolverton (4) -- screenplay
Recording Details
- Date: 1997
- Type: Audio / Stage Cast
- Language: English
- Location: US / NY / New York
- Orchestrations: Robert Elhai (3), Bruce Fowler (4), David Metzer (2), Dave Metzger (6)
- Conductor: Joseph Church (6)
- Music Director: Joseph Church (6)
- Vocal Arrangements: Lebo M (14)
- Producer: Robert Elhai (3), Harold J. Kleiner (9), Lebo M (14), Mark Mancina (12), Chris Montan (14), Jay Rifkin (7), Thomas Schumacher (2)
- Liner Notes: Lebo M (14), Mark Mancina (12), Julie Taymor (5)
- Performer: Gina Breedlove (2), Kevin Cahoon (5), Max Casella (4), Tracy Nicole Chapman (6), Heather Headley (8), Geoff Hoyle, Scott Irby-Ranniar (3), Faca Kulu, Tsidii Le Loka (2), Tsidi Leloka, Lebo M (14), Stanley Wayne Mathis (7), Jason Raize (3), Tom Alan Robbins (5), Kajuana Shuford, John Vickery, Samuel E. Wright (8)
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Posted 2008-02-26 19:02:12:Amazon.com: An Oscar win might suggest a score that would need a miracle to be bettered--but this colourful stage adaptation of Disney's
The Lion King does so with flair. Composers Mark Mancina and Lebo M worked closely together to fuse the movie's many disparate elements. Where there was a veritable army exercising creative influences for the animated tale, this brings it all under the wings of a like-minded few. This is genuinely apparent as one track flows into the next. The African rhythms--both vocal and in instrumentation--come across as authentic and original all at once. No doubt this is largely through Mancina's passion for peculiar instruments and the possibilities suggested from nightly live performances. "Grasslands Chant" is a good place to hear this. The hit favourites are here of course, but both "Circle of Life" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" are pleasingly unrecognizable with chorus and shifting beats. Better still is the likelihood they will now be eclipsed by some of the new numbers. Mancina's own "He Lives in You" being a strong contender. With a sound mix as crisp as you'd hope to find, this is rousing stuff.
--Paul Tonks >
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