Recorded on Broadway by Alex Belfield for the BBC and Celebrity Radio. Those include six Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical eight Drama Desk Awards six Outer Critics Circle Awards two Sir Laurence Oliviers the Evening Standard Award for Best Theatrical Event and three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. The Elton John-Tim Rice musical has won over 30 major awards. Your product is guaranteed to be mint and have a tag. Height: 8-11 inches Width: 4-7 inchesA Note on Tags: Disney produces these toys with various tags. Directed by Julie Taymor - who became the first woman to ever receive a Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical - The Lion King has become an international hit with productions playing all around the globe. The Lion King Broadways Zazu Size: These dimensions are the approximate size of all Disney Plush. 13, 1997, The Lion King has been seen by 50 million people worldwide. Pow performed at the ‘Royal Variety Performance 2008’ at the London Palladium. In December 2008 Pow had the honor of performing with the West End cast of The Lion King.Ĭelebrity Radio went to meet him at the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street, Broadway.Įnjoy an exclusive interview with Alex Belfield and Cameron on Broadway: “One of my favorite moments is the ‘Madness of King Scar’ scene that I play with Zazu…we have so much fun with it,” says Carlile.įun aside, Carlile is extremely aware of the impact a show of Lion King’s caliber has on theatregoers.Enjoy Celebrity Radio’s Cameron Pow Life Story Interview – Zazu Lion King Broadway….Ĭameron Pow is one of Broadway’s leading men and the hugely entertaining ‘Zazu’ in The Lion King. Carlile’s roommate in the homey space (more costumes, a cushy sofa, and a dressing table under which Carlile’s fluffy rescue dog Sugah is curled up asleep) is Cameron Pow, a fellow Brit who plays/operates Zazu, a large-beaked bird puppet who is the King’s loyal servant. And, like most mega-musicals, there is a labyrinthine passageway to the dressing rooms.
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“Directors are always there to tweak lines and tighten and update everything,” he notes, adding that for the show’s 20th anniversary in 2017, substantial updates were made to the production, including new choreography and a sound system “…so clear you can hear every instrument.”īackstage at the Minskoff Theatre, racks of costumes and headpieces are everywhere, sort of an extended menagerie only the cast and costume crew can navigate. “It seems so fresh every night-I sort of go out on stage and evolve,” he says, citing the various elements in play to keep the musical vibrant. Having been with the show off and on since then, Carlile remains fascinated by the cogs and wheels that keep it running smoothly and, of course, the many facets of Scar. Seven months later he began his first Lion King venture: a two-year stint with the U.K. “I’d just take whatever came along, until I began to say no to low-budget productions and understudy roles.” “There’s this luscious moment when I get to say ‘I’m surrounded by idiots,’” he says in Scar’s velvety voice.Ī graduate of Guildford School of Acting in Surrey, where he trained in musical theatre, he spent several years as a struggling actor playing quirky character roles.
To compensate for the annoyance of movement, Carlile’s Scar often drapes himself languidly on a rock or crevice when conversing with other characters-all of whom he abhors. He’s ugly inside and out, and he’s constantly in pain from a bad back,” says Carlile, noting that one of Scar’s legs is noticeably wobbly.
“You love to hate him and hate to love him.
Especially in the hands-or claw-like paws-of Stephen Carlile, an ultra-charming Brit who has endowed Scar with a delicious three-dimensional malevolence. Scar: Simba’s uncle Mufasa’s younger brother and the most complex character in Disney’s The Lion King. Yet even as the “Circle of Life” surges upward, one character remains nefariously low. It’s a musical that soars from the opening notes…rising sun…pockets of grass emerging from the ground anthropomorphized…gracefully stilted giraffes strolling the Pridelands…herds of gazelles vaulting in joyful sync…and the flowing silken lionesses leaping…and the birds twirling in blissful abandon…zebras…even the lumbering elephants are nuanced within their puppet frames…and then Pride Rock rises.towers…and King Mufasa raises the cub Simba skyward so he becomes the highest point…
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