I saw it in London 2006.
I thought the first have was "boring", not really boring, but definatly not as good as the second part.

Mainly because of the youngsters who played Simba & Nala.
Nala totally had an attitude, haha, probably because of the Brittish accent she had, lol, and the singing wasn't all that eather from those 2.

But the second half had all the beautiful songs in it