Eight shows a week can add up after a while. Ask the folks at Broadway’s long-running hit The Lion King. The show celebrated a whopping 5000 performances on November 5 with a joyful party at Bond 45. The festivities included many toasts and hugs as the current cast greeted members from previous companies, including the original cast. The cake ...

Disney’s long-running hit The Lion King is welcoming four new cast members in the roles of Young Simba and Young Nala. Marquis Kofi Rodriguez and Shereen Pimentel made their Broadway debuts on September 29, Shannon Skye Taravez will begin her run as Young Nala on September 30 and Alphonso Romero Jones II will debut as Young Simba on October ...

Supermodel Heidi Klum knows the best way to keep a trio of little ones happy on a summer weekend: Take ’em to see a Broadway show—or better yet, two Broadway shows! The Project Runway host, now expecting her fourth child with hubby Seal, gathered her brood and enjoyed matinee performances of Shrek the Musical and The Lion King, then ...

Age: 41

Hometown: Spokane, Washington

Currently: Making his Broadway debut as the scheming villain Scar in Disney's long-running hit musical The Lion King.

Grandma Knows Best: As early as age six, Donohue knew he wanted to become an actor, "but I didn't quite see how to do that," he says now. An early booster had no doubts: "When ...

Age: 33

Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Currently: Imparting fatherly wisdom as Mufasa in the Broadway production of Disney's The Lion King.

Born to Sing: The son of a minister and a music teacher, Stampley says, "I've been singing before congregations and audiences my whole life." Young Nate did his first musical roles in high school, then faced a big ...

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For almost a decade, Tom Alan Robbins has been an audience favorite as Pumbaa the flatulent warthog in The Lion King. An original cast member in Disney's smash-hit Broadway musical, Robbins came to Julie Taymor's visionary production after creating roles in Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Once Upon a Mattress and Sunset Boulevard, plus a stint as ... Read More...

Patrick Page will return to the leading role of Scar in The Lion King at the Minskoff Theatre on January 31. Page had played the villainous Scar for three years before taking on the role of the Grinch in the recent Broadway production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

In addition to The Grinch, Page's other Broadway ...

Age: "Sometimes I'm 46, sometimes I'm 18."

Currently: Making her Broadway debut in The Lion King as Nala--the strong, smart love interest of Simba, heir to Pride Rock--after performing the role in the first national tour.

Hometown: Floral City, Florida. Just an hour north of Tampa, Citrus County's Floral City boasts but a solitary traffic light and ... Read More...