Lion King Monte Casino
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ALAN COMMITTIE returns in
THE LYING KING: THE CIRCLE OF LAUGH
Lion King Monte Casino Hotel
Alan Committie returns to Johannesburg with his latest one-man show.
Once again, he will take a slightly skewered look at events from the past year, outline the comically bizarre possibilities for the following 12 months and try to make audiences laugh their way through the eye-popping confusion of modern day living.
We live in a world that thrives on mistruths, fake news, white lies and ‘mild inconsistencies“… and that’s just on your first date! Wait till you really get to know each other!
We have all become Lying Kings in our own little way. Despite our best efforts to fight it. Committie is here to unpack all the hilarious collatoral damage that we have to encounter.
In this brand new solo show, Committie will talk about intermittent fasting, Heidi en Klara and other 80’s tv deceits, the frustration of autocorrect, the lure of the finger biscuit and the spectacle of wearing glasses…..Or perhaps not talk about any of these things. Because December is some days away and things are moving very fast……
Committie is renowned for his witty and high energy material and combined with his madcap physicality and clean content makes for an ideal year-end break from all the stresses of 2020
Bring your youngsters, bring your aged and even bring your neighbour and come and have a riotous laugh and a gleeful giggle at Montecasino.
Plus, if you’re lucky, Committie will perform the entire opening sequence of the Lion King by himself playing all the animals except for the Kwagga (for legal reasons)….
It’s the CIIIIIIRRRRCCCLLLEEEE OF……LAAAAAUUUUGGH!!
Directed by Christopher Weare.
Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre
27 Nov – 6 Dec only
Lion King Montecasino Times
Performances Wed – Fri @ 8pm, Sat @ 4pm & 8pm, Sun @ 3pm
Tickets R150 to R220
Bookings at Computicket.
Janita and I went to watch the Lion King musical at Monte Casino last night and were blown away by an absolutely outstanding performance!
This international musical production is presented by a completely South African cast and has many local twists from nuances of the languages (including Afrikaans) to comments such as “it looks like a curtain from the Oriental Plaza”). The show is immensely entertaining and often incredibly funny. The show actually contains a few extra scenes that the original movie did not, but in general it sticks faithfully to the original and even the lines are mostly the same.
The above image of the opening scenes of the musical is taken from the City of Johannesburg website and is from an article written by Lucille Davie, entitled “The Lion King comes to Joburg“. The title of the source image is “Giraffe and lion met in Africa” but I must say that Janita and I thought the creature was a cheetah, not a lion. It was definitely my favorite creature of the night. The head was linked to the actress’ head with wires and when the actress moved so did the cheetah. It was really awesome to watch her “clean” herself (looked like a typical cat).
During the interval I glanced into the orchestra pit and was rather amazed. I am a flautist and have played in a few musicals and consequently been in a few orchestra pits in my life but I have never seen anything like the pit last night. The sheer amount of electronic gadgetry down there together with the classical orchestral instruments was quite staggering.
A second picture from the article shows Gazelles flying through the air. The way the animals formed part of the actors and actresses was incredible. Also in this picture is the monkey Rafiki who was played to perfection. To me, one of the most amazing scenes was the wildebeest stampede which was incredibly well done and very successfully conveyed the impression of millions of wildebeest stampeding towards the audience.
I would love to see it again (but unfortunately the tickets are a tad on the pricey side) so for now I’ll have the memories of a fantastic show and next time I won’t be so reluctant about going to see something like this.
Roar!