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 ...

Michael Curry understood the dilemma he and director Julie Taymor faced as they designed characters for the adaptation of Disney’s “The Lion King” for the Broadway stage. If the actors portraying ...

When at the grocery store, Michael Reilly often turns a few heads. As puppet master for the touring production of Disney’s “The Lion King,” playing at the First Interstate Center for the Arts through ...

Michael Curry never set out to be the creator of onstage zebras, gazelles and, of course, lions. But now he can't imagine doing anything else. The Oregon native who co-designed the many puppets and ...

"The Lion King" is one of the Broadway’s grandest spectacles. Of course it qualifies as a spectacle financially, grossing over a billion dollars and becoming the fourth longest-running Broadway show ...

The show has been filled to capacity virtually every performance. Not hard to see why. Timeless story, already familiar to millions through Disney’s superb 1994 Oscar-winning animated film and Julie ...

Michael Reilly has one of the most important jobs with the national tour of Disney's The Lion King. He's responsible for maintaining the integrity of the masks and puppets that are integral to the ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Michael Reilly doesn’t exactly live a normal life. By day, he’s behind the scenes of the touring ...

The Lion King has been setting up at Syracuse's Landmark Theatre for weeks, and will open Oct. 26 for three weeks. The touring Broadway production has 230 puppets and more than 700 props. It takes 13 ...