The Lion King

Ez and I were able to take Alexis, David, Lily, and Joe to see a production of The Lion King on June 18th. It was such a fun evening!

We drove in to Sacramento and met Grandma Jane at The Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner, then headed to the convention center for the play. The kids were all really excited, this was their first big play they were seeing. Jane has been taking the kids to children's theater productions for a couple of years now, but this experience was on a much grander scale.

The play started and everyone was so excited. As the curtain went down and the theater went dark after the opening scene, you hear Joe say to Ez, "ok, can we go home now"? My immediate thought was that this was going to be a long evening if Joe didn't want to stay. But immediately after he had said that, the shadow puppet of the mouse started scurrying across the stage, and you hear Joe say, "what's that"? He was mezmerized from that moment on!

The Lion King was an amazing production, not so much for the story line, but to watch in awe at how the actors moved and made themselves such believeable animal characters. It was a fun, fun evening.