‘The Lion King’ pounces on the Orpheum

The most profitable Broadway musical of all time, which SHN brings to the Orpheum this week for a two-month run, begins with a jolt.

[...] when Rafiki (Buyi Zama) belts them out, it’s as a clarion trumpeter heralding the simple yet bold and colorful theatricality that’s to come in “The Lion King.”

The chief pleasures of the musical that catapulted Julie Taymor to fame (and made her the first woman to win a Tony Award for best direction of a musical, in 1998) aren’t the result of high-tech gadgetry.