{"id":378,"date":"2011-03-31T22:49:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2011-03-31T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:50:20","slug":"judah-bellamy-and-shaylin-becton-join-the-lion-king-broadway-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/judah-bellamy-and-shaylin-becton-join-the-lion-king-broadway-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Judah Bellamy and Shaylin Becton Join The Lion King Broadway Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Produced by Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions, The Lion King is currently playing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-minskoff-theatre.html\">Broadway&#8217;s Minskoff Theatre<\/a> (200 West 45th Street). Broadway&#8217;s landmark musical event The Lion King is pleased to welcome Judah Bellamy as &#8220;Young Simba&#8221; and Shaylin Becton as &#8220;Young Nala&#8221; to the company. Bellamy and Becton made their Broadway debuts last night. They alternate with fellow young lions and current cast members Alphonso Romero Jones II (Young Simba) and Khail Toi Bryant (Young Nala).  <\/p>\n<p>Bellamy and Becton began performances on March 29 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-minskoff-theatre.html\">Minskoff Theatre<\/a>. The Lion King marks the Broadway debut for both performers. <\/p>\n<p>Judah Bellamy, 11, is a Baltimore native and has performed with Johns Hopkins&#8217; Unified Voices Choir and starred in The Wiz and A Raisin in the Sun at the Cahill Theatrical Arts Center in Maryland.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_380\" style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-minskoff-theatre.html\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-380\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/judah-bellamy-lion-king1.jpg\" alt=\"Judah Bellamy as Young Simba in Lion King\" title=\"Judah Bellamy as Young Simba in Lion King\" width=\"304\" height=\"253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/judah-bellamy-lion-king1.jpg 304w, http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/judah-bellamy-lion-king1-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judah Bellamy as Young Simba in Lion King<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nShaylin Becton, 9, is a Maywood, Illinois native and began singing and dancing at an early age.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_381\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-new-york-ny-tickets.html\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/shaylin-becton-lion-king.jpg\" alt=\"Shaylin Becton as Young Nala in Lion King\" title=\"Shaylin Becton as Young Nala in Lion King\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-381\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shaylin Becton as Young Nala in Lion King<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Judah Bellamy and Shaylin Becton are the newest Young Stars in The Lion King Broadway Cast. The Lion King opened on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre on November 13, 1997. The production received six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and moved to the Minskoff Theatre in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-new-york-ny-tickets.html\">Lion King New York NY Tickets<\/a> Online \u2013 Use Code AFF$10 to Get $10 OFF on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-minskoff-theatre.html\">Lion King Minskoff Theatre Ticket<\/a> Orders over $350!<\/strong><\/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>Produced by Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions, The Lion King is currently playing at Broadway&#8217;s Minskoff Theatre (200 West 45th Street). Broadway&#8217;s landmark musical event The Lion King is pleased to welcome Judah Bellamy as &#8220;Young Simba&#8221; and Shaylin Becton as &#8220;Young Nala&#8221; to the company. Bellamy and Becton made their Broadway debuts last [&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":[165,162,164,163,38,3,25,10,112,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"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=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}