What Lies Beneath

Subtext sings in Happy Days; The Lion King's a dull roar

Comments (0) By Elaine Liner Thursday, Sep 26 2002
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The Lion King's book is miserably weak, and Elton John and Tim Rice's songs hit the nadir of pop corniness. Thank goodness then for the spectacular artistry of director-designer Julie Taymor's sets, costumes, masks and puppetry. The wildly exotic pictures she paints onstage--the enormous rising sun, the trompe l'oeil wildebeest stampede, the clever use of shadow, the dancers tumbling through the sky on wires--are jaw-droppingly beautiful.

The rest is just a silly excuse to sell souvenirs.

Shelley Tharp-Payton is buried by life but not by Samuel Beckett's absurd ideas in Kitchen Dog's Happy Days.
Amanda Embry
Shelley Tharp-Payton is buried by life but not by Samuel Beckett's absurd ideas in Kitchen Dog's Happy Days.

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Happy Days continues through October 13 at the Kitchen Dog Theater. For information, call 214-953-1055

The Lion King continues through October 20 at the Music Hall at Fair Park. Call 214-631-ARTS.

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