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 ...

Is Dr. Simba Makoni, Zimbabwe's former finance minister, a genuine contender for the presidential election in Zimbabwe or simply part of a political ploy to keep President Robert Mugabe in power? Is ...

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 ...

· 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI — Simba, Nala and the rest were still singing in Rochester, New York, when Pride Rock arrived in Cincinnati. The four-week return of "The Lion King" to the Aronoff Center for the Arts ...

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 ...