Overview
Character Name
Rafiki
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Child, Early Teen, Late Teen
Role Size
Supporting
Dancing
Mover
Voice
Mezzo-Soprano
Vocal Range
High Note: C5
Low Note: A3
Vocal Technique
Belting, Legit
Time & Place
The Plains of Africa
Analysis
Rafiki is a baboon living in the Pride Lands of the African savanna. Quirky, comic, spiritual, and eccentric, she is a loyal and trusted subject of the lion king Mufasa. She is a shaman-like figure, and although she seems crazy at first, she is really incredibly wise.
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