The Lion King is a musical play based on the 1994 Walt Disney Animation Studios ' animated feature film of the same name with music by Elton John, lyrics. “I think it’s Broadway, simply because I think everything can be Broadway,” she said. The Lion King, Disney, Walt Disney, Broadway, Musical, Broadway Musical, Disney on Broadway, Hans Zimmer, Julie Taymor, Lebo M. Taymor also revealed details about the two film projects she’s developing, along with a stage production she’s hoping to get off the ground. Originality is what the audiences are hungry for.”
… People think that if you’re doing artistic work, it’s not commercial. “Don’t think because you’re doing something that’s going to have a 4-year-old in the audience that you have to dumb it down. The biggest takeaway for her? “Don’t underestimate your audience,” she said. So there was a sub-sociological bent in that production.”Īlso on the new episode of Stagecraft, Taymor looked back at the production’s early days to recall the challenges of staging the show and the lessons she learned along the way. “Which means they lived in the jungle and had missed Apartheid. “That became part of the story, because they were best friends and they were outcasts,” Taymor said. She singled out a production in South Africa in which Timon was played by a Black South African actor from a township in Capetown, and Pumbaa was played by a white Afrikaner. Speaking on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast, Taymor also explained how other elements of the show can play differently based on the international context. She added, “In Tokyo, I remember the comedians for the rough and tumble parts, they were from Osaka.
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