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 ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — All this week we are taking you behind the scenes of the Lion King in Kalamazoo. There are 230 puppets throughout the show. Puppet master, Michael Reilly, oversees them all and says ...

The urgency each day, each week, each month is how to keep each performance of “The Lion King” fresh — how, after all these years and all these countries, the passionate performances and the ...

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 ...

Pageantry in the Disney musical “The Lion King” hits its peak in the opening number as a full range of wild African animals fills the stage. While they sing Elton John’s “Circle of Life,” actors ...