"He Lives in You" was actually adapted from the spin-off album Rhythm of the Pride Lands as both "He Lives in You" and "They Live in You" for the first act. There are also several new songs, including solos for Simba and Nala ("Endless Night" and "Shadowland" respectively).Timon eventually falls to the bottom but emerges unharmed, no thanks to Simba. Before Simba could leap in to save him, he is suddenly reminded of his father's death, and freezes from the relapsing trauma.
Timon falls into a river and ends up dangling over a waterfall. An entirely new scene is added between Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa.He also points out to Mufasa, who's worrying about Simba's headstrong nature, that he knew another such cub.who turned out to do very well. At one point during "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", Zazu turns his head toward the audience and says " That wasn't in the cartoon.", and at another point attacks his own puppeteer when he thinks Mufasa is about to fire him.Once he gains the throne, Scar is portrayed as self-conscious and depressed that he isn't loved by the populace and - at least in the earlier versions - is being driven mad by his guilt over killing Mufasa, seeing his brother's shade everywhere.Nala gets more to do, reinforcing her character as brave, determined and unwilling to bow to oppression the reason she's able to run into Simba is because she has to leave the Pride Lands for fear Scar would force her to be his Queen.Rafiki gets more time on the stage, even addressing the audience.Timon's fur goes from a sandy tan to a more reddish-orange.Zazu goes from blue and purple to white and orange in the stage play, more closely resembling the color of a real hornbill (it also grants the puppet more visibility, contrasting with his darker colored operator).Simba is able to successfully No-Sell Scar's final attack on him atop Pride Rock, something which took him by surprise in the original film.Adaptational Badass: Timon in the film was running from the hyenas as they chased him.A different mixture of techniques is used for each animal species the lions are actors in costumes that allow the audience to see their human expressions, the elephants are pantomime animals, the hornbill Zazu is a rod puppet, and so on. The show is famous for its Spectacle: While faithful to the film's story and songs, visually it eschews the relatively literal, film-based costumes and sets of Disney's previous Broadway adaptation Beauty and the Beast in favor of using a variety of creative methods to "animate" its characters and setting, with costumes that often cross over with puppetry. Touring and sit-down productions have been mounted in dozens of countries, and as of September 2014 its total $6.2 billion take has rendered it the single most successful entertainment venture of all time. Directed by Julie Taymor, the Broadway production is still running, having won the 1998 Best Musical Tony Award, and was the first such show to gross over $1 billion as of 2013. The success of Disney's The Lion King on the big screen resulted in a Screen-to-Stage Adaptation in 1997.
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