Last night, John and I went to the Lyceum Theatre Covent Garden to see the award-winning show The Lion King. I went with little expectation that I would enjoy it and it didn't help that I already felt knackered, having done absolutely nothing all day long! We grapped a 'quick' bite to eat from a restaurant in Covent Garden, although the service was slow and disorganised! This left us running late with 10 minutes to spare before the show started.
The seats were very disappointing. John only booked them a week beforehand and maybe should have waited and booked at a later date to get better ones. We were in one of the boxes on our own with two, what I call, 'dining chairs'. The boxes faced the other side of the theatre rather than towards the stage so the view to part of the stage was restricted and we had to literally lean over to see properly. It was very uncomfortable and the show itself did nothing to take my mind off that. The costumes were brilliant but other than that, I haven't really got anything great to say about it. There was regular laughter in the audience but I didn't find it the least bit funny. It was probably a good show to most people, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Even the ending didn't have that 'oomph' that you would expect; they could've made far more of it.
Never mind - you win some, you lose some. I think after seeing Mary Poppins last week, that's gonna be hard to beat.
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