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Julie Taymor: how we made The Lion King musical by Interviews By Chris Wiegand

'The sheer idea of having a stampede on stage was exciting " the bigger the risk, the bigger the payoff' It was a surprise to get the call from Disney. Their world wasn't my aesthetic, but The Lion King's story aligned with the myths, folktales and Shakespearean stories I had done. I'd never seen the film before and was totally taken with it. The sheer idea of staging a stampede was exciting. They gave me a lot of fr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM on October 22, 2019

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