My wife and I enjoyed Festival of the Lion King on our recent visit to Animal Kingdom. This is an amazing show. It is made up of actors, singers, acrobats, and puppetry. It is an amazing spectacle and is quite engaging. They sing songs from the film like The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Can You Feel the Love Tonight, and The Circle of Life along with others. The singers have strong voices and are really talented. The acrobats were fun to watch. I recommend Festival of the Lion King.

We really enjoyed Festival of the Lion King, one of the live stage shows at Animal Kingdom. Lion King is held in the Harambe Theatre (Animal Kingdom Africa) that is a circle-in-the-round theatre with four sets of bleacher seating surrounding a center space. The show is over a half hour long (check the showtime schedule).Festival of the Lion King is not a shortened version of the Broadway musical and does not include the incredible costumes and puppetry of Julie Taymor. Instead, the Festival is a staged as a celebration of the movie's greatest hits such as Circle of Life, Scar's Be Prepared, Hakuna Matata and Can You Feel the Love Tonight.The show begins with costumed actors, stilt dancers and other performers leading four large floats into the theatre round. It was odd that unlike the actors and dancers dressed in beautiful African inspired costumes, Timon was dressed as a Meet and Greet character. Simba and Pumba were head-bobbing cartoon figures on the large floats and added little to the show.The actors performing the songs were incredibly talented singers. Each song was accompanied by wonderful acts - there was a team acrobatic performance involving somersaults, handstands on rings and trapeze, a dramatic fire dance and a moving ballet with aerial dancing.Young children might be disappointed if they expect a retelling of Lion King and seeing young Simba. But with the fire dance, flying acrobats and aerial dancing, this show might wow them as a mini circus.Seating: The theatre is not large so everyone has a good view of the performance but the best seats are between the warthog and lion sections (sitting in the other sections means facing the back of the fire dancer).Recommend that you arrive early to get seats. The theatre was packed when we arrived shortly before the noon show (off peak weekday). We were hoping to get any seat so we were pleasantly surprised with a Disney Magical Moment when the usher directed us to empty front row seats reserved for Lightning Lane guests. Thank you :o)

Tremendous show, nearly worth the price of park admission alone. You are right on top of all the action, it is right there at your level, not up on a stage. Wheelchair seating is the best possible, best seats in the house. Seen it several times, and will again in January 2025, and cannot wait. Do not miss while at this park

We are big theater fans! This was a full on production we would have paid to see! It had it all....singing, dancing, acrobatics and more! It was high energy! Bonus, it was a fantastic break from the heat! I liked the length, not too long that you feel you are missing out on the park, but not too short that you feel you wasted your time. Loved the Cast Member energy and audience participation!

Absolutely fabulous. If visiting Animal Kingdom, make sure you make time for this show. It’s spectacular. Lots of acrobatics and stunts, brilliant dancing, great singing and lots of audience interaction. It’s very very musical, peppy and entertaining. Kids and adults both will love it