Circle of Life Vocals US Tour The Lion King 2002 Ed US Tour The Lion King 2002 Ensemble US Tour The Lion King 2002 Gazelle Wheel US Tour The Lion King 2002 Lioness/Hyena Shadow Puppet US Tour The Lion ...

Ben Lipitz has played a wart hog on stage for several years. But the role of Pumbaa, in the musical version of “The Lion King,” is never boring. “I’ve been doing it for the last eight years,” he said ...

Michael Curry understood the dilemma he and director Julie Taymor faced as they designed characters for the adaptation of Disney’s “The Lion King” for the Broadway stage. If the actors portraying ...

Pageantry in the Disney musical “The Lion King” hits its peak in the opening number as a full range of wild African animals fills the stage. While they sing Elton John’s “Circle of Life,” actors ...

Circle of Life Vocals US Tour The Lion King 2002 Ed US Tour The Lion King 2002 Ensemble US Tour The Lion King 2002 Gazelle Wheel US Tour The Lion King 2002 Lioness/Hyena Shadow Puppet US Tour The Lion ...

For most of the last 16 years, Ben Lipitz has put on a 6-foot, 50-pound puppet costume and transformed himself eight times a week into the comical warthog Pumbaa in “The Lion King.” He is approaching ...

One of the unique aspects of the musical of "The Lion King" is that all the stage magic - the ways that human actors turn into everything from elephants to anthills, or how a rising sun can seem to ...

For opening scenes in a musical, you won’t find anything that’s more of a knockout than “The Lion King.” The mandrill Rafiki summons all of the animals to Pride Rock, which triggers a massive, ...

Certainly “The Lion King” with all its puppets and mask work might seem like an overly ambitious project for the small New Albany private school that serves students with learning disabilities, ...

It’s party time at Broadway in Boston, now in the midst of its 30th anniversary season of presenting Broadway shows in the theater district. And what better way to kick off its 2014-2015 season than ...

There’s the living cast of Disney’s “The Lion King,” – a traveling troupe of more than 50 actors, singers and dancers with trained voices and limbs and long theatrical resumes. Then there’s the ...