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• Practice makes perfect with the stage version of Disney's "The Lion King"

  Jim Hill goes backstage at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino, expecting to see all sorts of craziness. But what he finds instead is a smooth-running, relatively stress-free musical-making machine Read More... Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: Paris, tours, The Lion King, stage, stage manager, stage show , stage version, stagecraft, stagehands, staging, Singapore, set, musical, Las Vegas, Julie Taymor, costume designer , costumes, Broadway, Broadway musical, 1997, 2009, 2010, Tokyo, London, Mandalay Bay, Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, Broadway production, Disney, backstage, sets, Disney Theatrical

• Tune Thursday: Why "The Lion King" gets the lion's share of the attention on the Las Vegas Strip

  Jim Hill talks about the ambitious promotional plan that the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino and Disney Theatrical put together to help hype this new sit-down production of that Tony Award-winning musical Read More... Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: Dancing with the Stars, ABC, key card, video marquee, The Producers, The Strip, The Lion King, The Lion King Exhibit, stage, stage show , stage version, Results Show, promotion, promotional campaign, Raleigh Studios, musical, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Strip, Julie Taymor, Hairspray, Broadway, Broadway musical, Avenue Q , 1996 , 1997, lion, Mandalay Bay, Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, Mandalay Place, Disney, hotel, Eric Stonestreet, show, shows, theater, Disney Theatrical, Modern Family

• Tune Thursday: Disney’s “The Lion King” gets ready to roar in Las Vegas

  Jim Hill talks with Deborah Warren, publicist for this brand-new production of the acclaimed stage musical. In particular discussing the many challenges that Disney Theatrical faced while setting up shop at the Mandalay Bay Resort Read More... Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: The Lion King, stage, stage show , musical, musical theater, Las Vegas, Julie Taymor, Broadway, Broadway musical, 2009, Disney, Disney Theatrical

• Tune Tuesday : "Shrek the Musical" gets off to a great start in Seattle

  WARNING !! There be spoilers ahead in this preview piece about DreamWorks Theatrical's Broadway-bound production. Which is a musical adaptation of DW's Academy Award-winning animated feature Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:00 AM | 8 Comments Filed under: The Little Mermaid, David Lindsay-Abaire , Great White Way, 5th Avenue Theater , 9 to 5 : The Musical, LA, Ahmanson Theater, Fiona, world premiere, Young Frankenstein, YouTube, Walt Disney, Tim Hatley, The Walt Disney Company, The Lion King, swamp, spoilers, stage, stage show , stage version, Snow White, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Seattle, second act, playhouse, playset, Ponyo, Poppa Ogre, outhouse, out-of-town, November, movie-based musical, music, musical, musical adaptation, Mickey Mouse, Lord Farquaad , librettist, Julie Taymor, Jason Moore , I Know It's Today, I Think I Got You Beat, Fantasia, Donkey, December , design team, designer, creative team , Cloris Leachman, Colony Theater, challenge song, Brian D'Arcy James, Broadway, Broadway musical, Big Apple , Big Bright Beautiful World, Big Green Ogre , audience, August, animated feature, Academy Award, Academy Award winner, Academy Award-winning, 2001, 2008, title character, Jeanine Tesori , 1928, introductory number, Steamboat Willie, strategy, childhood, choreographer, Rob Ashford, Broadway production, Broadway Theatre, Broadway-bound, diecast, director , Disney, DreamWorks, DreamWorks Theatricals, DW, backstory, movie, movie theater, the Colony Theater, Shrek, Shrek the Musical, NYC, ogre, opening, opening night, opening number, Walt Disney Company, theater, theater community, New York, New York audiences, New York City, composer, Momma Ogre

• Tune Thursday : Looking back at the development of Broadway's "Lion King"

  Jim Hill chats with Derek Smith, the actor who's now playing Scar in this Tony Award-winning musical. But whose ties to this show actually go all the way back to the costume & mask tests that Julie Taymor did in her workshop Read More... Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: The Madness of King Scar, workshop, The Green Bird, stage, stage manager, stage show , stage version, staging, musical, Minskoff Theatre, mask, Julie Taymor, Derek Smith, costume concept, costume designer , costumes, Broadway, Broadway musical, 1997, Tony Award, Tony Award winner, Scar, Broadway production, Disney, rehearsal, rehearsal pianist, NYC, Disney Theatrical, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, New York City

• Broadway comes roaring back to life, and so does Disney's "The Lion King"

  Jim Hill brings you an update on the 10th anniversary celebration for this Tony Award-winning musical. Which was kind of thrown off-schedule by last month's stagehands strike Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: The Montecasino Teatro, South Africa, caterer, celebration, gala performance, picket line, after-party, Young Nala, Young Simba, Thomas Schumacher, The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, The League of American Theatres and Producers, The Lion King, the boys: the sherman brothers' story, stagehands, stagehands union, Ron Kunene, reunion, original cast, musical, Minskoff Theatre, Julie Taymor, family, canapé, Broadway, Broadway musical, 1997, TLK, Tony Award, Tony Award winner, Johannesburg, unsung hero, unsung heroes, international production, Cipriani 42, scenery, Mexico, road company, Local One, Broadway production, Disney, NYC, opening night, theater, Disney Theatrical, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City

• Stage version of Disney's "The Lion King" is an international success, but ...

  ... in an interview with Jim Hill, production supervisor Doc Zorthian reveals how this long-running musical receives a somewhat different reception in every new country it's presented in Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: gala performance, production supervisor, Paris, the boys: the sherman brothers' story, The Circle of Life, puppetry, Rafiki, music, musical, Minskoff Theatre, Julie Taymor, Japan, Germany, Broadway, Tony Award winner, Joan Marcus, Tshidi Manye, international production, Steve Doc Zorthian, Scar, NYC, theater, Disney Theatrical, New York City

• Tune Thursday: Broadway's "Lion King" balances spectacle with intimate storytelling

  As this Tony Award-winning musical gets ready to celebrate its 10th anniversary in NYC, Jim Hill chats with Nathaniel Stampley. Who talks about how the sacrifices that his own father made as well as the recent birth of his daughter informs Stampley's performance of Mufasa Read More... Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: 9/11, gala performance, the boys: the sherman brothers' story, Simba, music, musical, Minskoff Theatre, Julie Taymor, Detroit, Chicago, Broadway, Disney, NYC, theater, Disney Theatrical, Nathaniel Stampley, New York City

• Tune Thursday: Timon tells tails ... er ... tales about his time on Broadway

  In honor of the 10th anniversary of the stage version of "The Lion King," Jim Hill chats with Danny Rutigliano. The veteran stage performer who -- for nearly a decade now -- has been playing the world's most famous meerkat (Outside of Flower, of course) Read More... Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:00 AM | 6 Comments Filed under: Danny Rutigliano, The President of the United States, The Sopranos, The Walt Disney Company, movies, music, musical, Minneapolis, Minskoff Theatre, Max Casella, Julie Taymor, Broadway, Bill Clinton, animation, Tony Award winner, meerkat, Disney, theater, Disney Theatrical, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City