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 ...

· Types of animals, birds, fish and insects represented in the show: 25 · Gazelles: 15, five actors each wear a gazelle puppet on both arms and one affixed to their head. · Gazelles on the gazelle ...

“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 ...

Podcaster Show PlayerDisney’s “The Lion King” opened on Broadway in 1997 and became an instant sensation. The show’s original director, Julie Taymor, who had made her reputation working in avant-garde ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — All this week we are taking you behind the scenes of the Lion King in Kalamazoo. There are 230 puppets throughout the show. Puppet master, Michael Reilly, oversees them all and says ...

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 ...

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 ...

The musical "The Lion King" will return Proctors in 2022, but the date has yet to be set. (Provided photo by Disney.) The jungle comes alive again on Tuesday night as "The Lion King" puts down roots ...

The Lion King has been setting up at Syracuse's Landmark Theatre for weeks, and will open Oct. 26 for three weeks. The touring Broadway production has 230 puppets and more than 700 props. It takes 13 ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Disney Theatrical Productions President Thomas Schumacher stops by Live ...

It may come from the cruelest cat in the Pride Lands, but it's the sung advice of "The Lion King" villain Scar that Michael Reilly follows closest. Though he's not rallying his hyena troops for a ...