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After and Before: Thom Sesma as Scar inThe Lion King

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Thom Sesma plays Scar in The Lion King at Mandalay Bay.
Photo: Beverly Poppe

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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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