"This was the second time I saw the Lion King. The actors are spectacular! Amazing singing and the puppetry is outstanding. I had tears in my eyes when the actors came down the aisles and during the ...

In the extended version of The Lion King, Zazu sings a song called “The Morning Report.” While it’s not in the original theatrical cut, it’s full of fun little references. He name-drops various ...

For stretches, The Lion King plays like a show aimed at impressionable children as adults wait for the story to move forward.

Not every Disney sidekick can have the four-quadrant appeal of Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King (1994), Mushu from Mulan (1998), or Olaf from Frozen (2013). For every superstar side character, ...

Credit: Matthew Murphy When Disney’s “The Lion King” roars into the Kansas City Music Hall from May 22 through June 1, a familiar face will play the lead role. Erick D. Patrick, who plays adult Simba ...

"The Lion King" opens with a theatrical sunrise and ... His older counterpart, Erick D. Patrick, gives adult Simba a pleasing childlike vulnerability and unleashes a strong tenor on the emotional ...

Simba then takes up the mantle as Lion King (“King of Pride Rock”), and ... I wasn’t a Disney Adult enjoying a beloved intellectual property. Rather, I was simply a son creating a new ...

adult love interest Nala. Darnell Abraham (left) and Julian Villela, seated on the Pride Rock set of Disney's "The Lion King" musical, share a father-son bond as Mufasa and Simba respectively.

The group will perform “The Lion King ... The role of Simba is played by both DeSean Ways, who portrays the young Simba, and Breon Atkins who plays the adult Simba. Rachael Neil plays the ...

Disney's "The Lion King" opened its two-and-a-half-week run ... of meerkat-and-warthog duo Timon and Pumbaa. As a young adult, Simba finds himself facing a difficult choice when his childhood ...

Mufasa: The Lion King posits that Scar wasn’t Mufasa’s biological brother, as The Lion King indicates, nor did he take on the name Scar until he was a young adult ... after Simba and Nala's ...