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Lion King Broadway musical in the $2 Million Club and Lead the list with the grossing $2,624,288 and had an attendance rate of 99.2%, about 0.8% less than that of the previous week. Wicked (Grossing $2,118,401) musical is also in the $2 Million Club and in the 2nd position behind Lion King. Aladdin (Grossing $1,854,407), Hamilton (Grossing $1,490,816) and The Book of Mormon (Grossing $1,474,355) are in the list next to Wicked. The 28 shows on the boards grossed $28,789,622, improving around 2.56% from the previous week’s totals.

Below are the Top 22 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending August 02, 2015.

1. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $2,624,288
2. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $2,118,401
3. Aladdin – (NEW AMSTERDAM) $1,854,407
4. Hamilton – (RICHARD RODGERS) $1,490,816
5. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,474,355
6. An American In Paris – (PALACE) $1,388,952
7. Penn & Teller On Broadway – (MARQUIS) $1,304,660
8. Finding Neverland – (LUNT-FONTANNE) $1,200,295
9. The King And I – (VIVIAN BEAUMONT) $1,134,145
10. Matilda – (SHUBERT) $1,108,854
11. The Phantom Of The Opera – (MAJESTIC) $1,090,526
12. An Act Of God – (STUDIO 54) $1,074,778
13. Something Rotten! – (ST. JAMES) $1,073,132
14. Beautiful – (STEPHEN SONDHEIM) $946,124
15. Mamma Mia! – (BROADHURST) $939,807
16. Kinky Boots – (AL HIRSCHFELD) $890,611
17. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time – (ETHEL BARRYMORE) $842,068
18. Fish In The Dark – (CORT) $$841,809
19. FUN HOME – (CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE) $782,634
20. Les Miserables – (IMPERIAL) $766,999
21. Chicago – (AMBASSADOR) $748,452
22. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $651,437

{Via BroadwayWorld.com}

Lion King musical is all set and is currently performing at Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, DC from June 17 to August 17, 2014.

Lion King Puppet supervisor – Michael Reilly

Know all about the Lion King’s Puppet supervisor, Michael Reilly – by KRISTEN PAGE.

“I prefer puppet master. It sounds better,” says the man who manages the menagerie of puppets that make “Disney’s The Lion King” the visual spectacular that it is.

The musical, based on Disney’s 1994 animated smash, is not the largest production Reilly’s been a part of (he was the “sword and armor guy” for a production of “The Lord of the Rings” that opened in Toronto in 2006) but the touring company of “The Lion King” (at the Kennedy Center through Aug. 17) certainly keeps him busy, even without any ringwraiths.

“We have so many different kinds of puppets. We have body puppets, shadow puppets, hand puppets,” he says. “Each one is unique unto itself and each one can find a different way to break.”
Reilly and his team spend each show waiting for the puppet equivalent of 911; when the call comes over the radio, they rush in like ER docs.

“We have a tool belt of knickknacks, all kinds of collars and fittings and keys and all kinds of things,” Reilly says. “It all depends on who breaks; we generally have an idea of what broke once they tell us which puppet is broken. If a hyena breaks, often it’ll be a string; if it’s Pumbaa, it’ll be a zip tie.”

The biggest problem — literally — is often the 6-foot-tall African elephant, which requires four cast members to operate. “When she breaks, it’s pretty massive,” he says.

So far Reilly and his team have a 100 percent success rate when it comes to resurrecting their patients.
“I’m happy to say no puppet has stopped the show,” he says. “I probably shouldn’t have said that. I maybe just jinxed it.”

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Book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi. Music and lyrics by Elton John and Tim Rice. Directed by Julie Taymor. Lion King Musical, A Walt Disney Company production, presented by Broadway Across Canada. At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Thursday, July 15. Continues until August 8.

The design is the star of The Lion King. That’s both a good and a bad thing. Some sequences are heart-stoppingly beautiful. In the opening of this story about a young lion named Simba, the savannah awakes. A tangerine sun rises as South African rhythms reverberate through the theatre, shaking your bones, and animals parade down the aisles. Actors dressed in spectacular costumes—hippos, birds, elephants—ascend the stage, where they meet giraffes (actors on four stilts), cheetahs, and more. It’s enough to make you weep.

Director Julie Taymor designed the costumes and she codesigned the masks and puppets with Michael Curry. Many of these elements are stunners as well. A wheeled, geared machine supports sculptures of antelopes that appear to leap in complicated groupings as it moves along.

Taymor’s emphasis on design sometimes overwhelms the story, however. The 1994 animated film, upon which this 1997 stage musical is based, is full of boisterous, unpretentious action. Here, beautiful fabrics and shapes become the substitutes.

When Simba’s evil uncle Scar manipulates the young cub into running away from home, the outcast Simba picks up a couple of comic sidekicks: the warthog Pumbaa and the meerkat Timon. With the arrival of these two, the musical takes a sharp—and welcome—turn toward the goofy. And all of a sudden, the show is about surprising relationships and personalities. Throughout most of Act 1, the only surprising personality belongs to Scar, who was sinuously played on opening night by standby Nicholas Carriere. Ben Lipitz is in excellent, flatulent form as Pumbaa, and Nick Cordileone delivers one of the funniest performances of the evening as the silly, slightly hysterical Timon.

Most of the music by the central composers, Elton John and Tim Rice, is forgettable pop. But the stage version of The Lion King also borrows songs from the album, The Rhythm of the Pride Lands, which features work by South African songwriter Lebo M, among others. This more authentically African material is thrilling, especially when it’s sung by Brenda Mhlongo, who plays the baboon narrator Rafiki.

In terms of spectacle, Taymor’s Lion King is a groundbreaking work of art, but Taymor is sometimes more of a visual artist than a compelling storyteller.

{Via Straight.com}

Lion King is currently performing at Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, BC Canada. The Lion King continues in Vancouver until Aug. 8. Buy your Lion King Vancouver BC Canada Tickets now!