{"id":1653,"date":"2023-05-28T17:48:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T17:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2023-05-28T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T17:56:46","slug":"broadways-the-lion-king-to-introduce-2-new-young-simbas-this-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/broadways-the-lion-king-to-introduce-2-new-young-simbas-this-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway&#8217;s The Lion King to introduce  2 New Young Simbas this June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 2023 marks the debut of two new young Simbas in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-new-york-ny-tickets.html\">Broadway&#8217;s The Lion King<\/a>. Starting Tuesday, June 6, Donovan Louis Bazemore and Davis Matthews will alternate as \u201cYoung Simba\u201d alongside current cast members Ava Hailey Harris and Jillian Paige Platero as \u201cYoung Nala.\u201d David Matthews will make his Broadway debut, while Bazemore previously performed in The Lion King show.<\/p>\n<p>David Matthews is excited to make his Broadway debut! White Plains Performing Arts Center gave him his first performance opportunity when he was six years old. In New York, he has also performed at Sandbox Theater and Random Farms Kids Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Taymor, the first woman to win a Tony for Best Director of a Musical, is the show&#8217;s director, costume designer, and mask co-designer. She continues to be actively involved in the production, initiating new performances while also maintaining the main Broadway production.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating 25 landmark years on Broadway, The Lion King continues to ascend as one of the most popular stage musicals in the world. Over the course of the show&#8217;s run, there have been 27 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-on-tour.html\">tours<\/a> and international productions, seen by 112 million people and currently seen each week by 115,000 people across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Lion King New York NY Tickets are hot, check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-minskoff-theatre.html\">The Lion King Minskoff Theatre Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/203243\/the-lion-king-to-welcome-davis-matthews-and-donovan-louis-bazemore-as-young-simba\/?_gl=1*7xp333*_gcl_au*MTM5NTU1OTkxNS4xNjg0NDAxNzU2');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/203243\/the-lion-king-to-welcome-davis-matthews-and-donovan-louis-bazemore-as-young-simba\/?_gl=1*7xp333*_gcl_au*MTM5NTU1OTkxNS4xNjg0NDAxNzU2\">Broadway.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go ahead and join the thousands experiencing the sensation! <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/ticketnetwork.7eer.net\/c\/87164\/120057\/2322?u=https:\/\/www.ticketnetwork.com\/en\/theatre\/tickets\/plays-and-musicals\/the-lion-king\/c\/99003160');\"  href=\"http:\/\/ticketnetwork.7eer.net\/c\/87164\/120057\/2322?u=https:\/\/www.ticketnetwork.com\/en\/theatre\/tickets\/plays-and-musicals\/the-lion-king\/c\/99003160\">Get The Lion King tickets now!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nwpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2023 marks the debut of two new young Simbas in Broadway&#8217;s The Lion King. Starting Tuesday, June 6, Donovan Louis Bazemore and Davis Matthews will alternate as \u201cYoung Simba\u201d alongside current cast members Ava Hailey Harris and Jillian Paige Platero as \u201cYoung Nala.\u201d David Matthews will make his Broadway debut, while Bazemore previously performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[764,765,768,767,554,771,115,769,553,770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}