After and Before: Thom Sesma as Scar inThe Lion King
Tue, Oct 6, 2009 (3:31 p.m.)
Thom Sesma plays Scar in The Lion King at Mandalay Bay.
Photo: Beverly Poppe
Calendar
- Lion King
- Monday through Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday and Sunday, 4 and 8 p.m.
- $53-$113.50, Mandalay Bay
- 632-7580
Sesma dons 50 pounds of leather for every performance, but that’s easy compared with what it took to land the role in the first place—“Auditions, callbacks, waiting ...”—or gear up for the first show: “Nine weeks of intense and grueling rehearsals,” he says.

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