Michael Reilly was backstage at the Pantages Theatre, brushing tiny strokes of blue paint around the bulging eyes of Zazu — a dodo bird hand puppet featured in Disney’s “The Lion King.” The ...

“A Celebration of the Festival of the Lion King” returns with soaring soloists, stilt walkers, a fire twirler, animalistic choreography and costuming, a king-size Simba puppet and popular songs to ...

And now much-loved musical The Lion King will premiere in WA this month. The Disney spectacular, which debuted on Broadway in 1997, has been seen by 75 million people. Nick Afoa as Simba in The Lion ...

The urgency each day, each week, each month is how to keep each performance of “The Lion King” fresh — how, after all these years and all these countries, the passionate performances and the ...

Felicity Napuli, Uma Martin and Sheena Bentoy alternate as Young Nala, while Juan Gabriel Tiongson, Julien Joshua Dolor Jr. and Omar Uddin play Young Simba “The Lion King” associate director Anthony ...

Wearing his 30 pounds of gear for Disney’s The Lion King, Dionne Randolph is not so much a man in a costume as a giant human puppet. As Mufasa, the literal king of the jungle and father to Simba, he ...

TOMORROW MORNING, STARTING AT 430. NEW ON WYFF NEWS FOUR AT SIX. MORE THAN 200 PUPPETS ARE USED TO CREATE THE MAGIC OF THE LION KING ON STAGE. OUR SYDNEY SHADRIX WENT BEHIND THE STAGE AT THE PEACE ...