Michael Reilly was backstage at the Pantages Theatre, brushing tiny strokes of blue paint around the bulging eyes of Zazu — a dodo bird hand puppet featured in Disney’s “The Lion King.” The ...

It’s been a short flight back and forth across Bushnell Park for puppeteer Nick LaMedica, who’s flapping his wings as the uninhibited hornbill bird Zazu in the national tour of the spectacular Disney ...

Disney's "The Lion King" musical is as much about the puppets as it is about the story and human cast. And Oregonians can take some local pride in those puppets, which were co-designed by Portlander ...

What: The U.S. Bank Star Performance Series at PlayhouseSquare presents the touring production of the Disney Broadway musical. Music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, book by Roger Allers and Irene ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Mark David Kaplan, who plays Zazu in the national tour of "The Lion King," poses backstage with the Zazu puppet. Photo by Selena ...

CINCINNATI — Simba, Nala and the rest were still singing in Rochester, New York, when Pride Rock arrived in Cincinnati. The four-week return of "The Lion King" to the Aronoff Center for the Arts ...

At some point after the magical “The Circle of Life” opening — a swirl of animal puppets and their actors — the audience stops seeing the actors and just starts looking at the puppets, says “The Lion ...

Tony Freeman remembers when the first casting call went out for Disney's "The Lion King." Starving actors who typically aren't too proud to try out for any paying part, no matter how degrading, were ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You can feel the love Tuesday night through November 5 as “The Lion King” musical is at Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque. “We took a cartoon essentially and we put it on stage,” said ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In the current production, Drew Hirshfield plays Zazu, the chief advisor to ...