#How Broadway Hit Stages 10 Global Shows – The Hollywood Reporter

#How Broadway Hit Stages 10 Global Shows – The Hollywood Reporter

Last November, The Lion King musical celebrated its 25th anniversary on Broadway, marking the stage adaption of Disney’s 1994 animated film as one of the New York theater district’s longest-running and highest-grossing productions in history. But the legacy of the Tony-winning show, which transferred from Minneapolis’s Orpheum Theatre to Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theatre in 1997 before moving…

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#How I survived passing on ‘Lion King’

#How I survived passing on ‘Lion King’

“How I survived passing on ‘Lion King’” Justin Guarini surprisingly passed up an opportunity to star in the huge Broadway hit “The Lion King” while competing on “American Idol” in 2002 — but he now feels hakuna matata about that decision. The 44-year-old Season 1 runner-up chose to stick with a potential shot at superstardom…

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#Broadway’s ‘Lion King’ interpreter fired for being white settles case amid backlash

#Broadway’s ‘Lion King’ interpreter fired for being white settles case amid backlash

“Broadway’s ‘Lion King’ interpreter fired for being white settles case amid backlash” The white sign-language interpreter booted from Broadway’s “Lion King” for his skin color quietly settled his federal discrimination case against the theatre company that fired him, The Post has learned. Keith Wann and the Theatre Development Fund — a nonprofit that provides ASL…

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