Archive for June, 2010
The Lion King Welcomes New Principals To The Company As Of 6/15
Broadway’s landmark musical event The Lion King is pleased to welcome to the Company Beginning Tuesday, June 15: Gareth Saxe as the evil and power-hungry lion Scar; Alton FitzGerald White as Mufasa, the great lion warrior and ruler of the Pridelands; CAMERON POW as the prim and proper hornbilled bird Zazu; Ben Jeffrey as the carefree warthog Pumbaa; FrEd Berman as the wisecracking meerkat Timon; and CHAUNTEÉ SCHULER as the loyal lioness Nala. Jeffrey, Berman and Schuler will mark their Broadway debut with The Lion King. Produced by Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions, The Lion King is currently playing at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre (200 West 45th Street).
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Lion King Roars in OCPAC, Costa Mesa CA
Lion King Roars in Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa CA. Be a part of the audience watching this great show at Orange County Performing Arts Center. Buy now and save $20 on your next order over $250.
Center president Terry Dwyer was beaming as Segerstrom Hall filled with expectant adults and kids for Friday’s performance of Disney’s perennially popular show, which plays there through June 13.
It’s easy to understand his happiness. Like every temple of culture around the nation, OCPAC has seen its share of paltry ticket sales and empty seats over the last 18 months or so. Broadway seasons help performing arts centers power through such droughts, and shows like “The Lion King” are their crown jewels.
Happily, “The Lion King,” in addition to its undisputed status as one of musical theater’s monster money makers, is also grandly entertaining, and in a way that other warhorses such as “Miss Saigon” and “The Phantom of the Opera” aren’t. Those musicals are intended for adult audiences. “The Lion King” is family fare, though like so many Disney stories since “Bambi” it comes with a caveat: death in the family.
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{ Via Orange County Register Communications}
