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Puppetry plays an extensive role in bringing to life Disney’s The Lion King on stage. There are primarily two kinds of puppetry used in The Lion King. Bunraku Puppetry from Japan, and shadow puppetry from Indonesia.
Bunraku, or Japanese puppet theater, is probably the most developed form of puppetry in the world. The puppets are large - usually about [...]
Julie Taymor, director and designer of the Broadway production of The Lion King, gives the following account of casting procedure and rehearsals for that production.
PRINCIPAL REHEARSALS
During the first rehearsal days I worked improvisation ally with the principal actors. We would move back and forth between reading and analyzing the text and getting up on our [...]