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*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
THE DIAMOND
Written by Christin Eve Cato
Devised by People’s Theatre Project
Directed by Chuk Obasi
The People’s Theatre Project (PTP) presents a reading of a work-in-process showing of The Diamond.
The Diamond, an interactive show that explores the nuances and complexities of the immigrant experience in three acts, follows a nation’s first Afro-Latina president and her all-female cabinet as they travel through time. Compiled from three original PTP plays, Las Mariposas, Somos Más, and Doña Mañana, The Diamond celebrates the resilience and humanity of immigrants to the United States.
Fri, January 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
876 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10032
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-diamond-a-play-reading-tickets-511857979997?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
The Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival (#BMPFest) is seeking new plays by Black Parent and caregiver playwrights for its upcoming theatre festival in the Fall of 2023.
#BMPFest is open to those that identify as Black parents and caregivers.
#BMPFest is seeking stories centering the Black parenting and caregiving experience.
This includes, but is not limited to stories from artists with family responsibilities.
PAAL and Blackboard are transgender and non-binary affirming spaces. All language referencing "mother," "parent," "dad," "caregiver," and their derivatives include and refer to any individual who identifies with them.
***
PLAYWRIGHTS REALM WRITING FELLOWSHIP
The Writing Fellowship is at the heart of what we do: helping writers write. Four early-career playwrights receive nine months of resources, readings and feedback designed to help them reach their professional and artistic goals. The culminating event of the program is our INK’D Festival, which features public readings of each Fellows’ play.
***
*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
THE DIAMOND
Written by Christin Eve Cato
Devised by People’s Theatre Project
Directed by Chuk Obasi
The People’s Theatre Project (PTP) presents a reading of a work-in-process showing of The Diamond.
The Diamond, an interactive show that explores the nuances and complexities of the immigrant experience in three acts, follows a nation’s first Afro-Latina president and her all-female cabinet as they travel through time. Compiled from three original PTP plays, Las Mariposas, Somos Más, and Doña Mañana, The Diamond celebrates the resilience and humanity of immigrants to the United States.
Fri, January 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
876 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10032
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-diamond-a-play-reading-tickets-511857979997?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
The Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival (#BMPFest) is seeking new plays by Black Parent and caregiver playwrights for its upcoming theatre festival in the Fall of 2023.
#BMPFest is open to those that identify as Black parents and caregivers.
#BMPFest is seeking stories centering the Black parenting and caregiving experience.
This includes, but is not limited to stories from artists with family responsibilities.
PAAL and Blackboard are transgender and non-binary affirming spaces. All language referencing "mother," "parent," "dad," "caregiver," and their derivatives include and refer to any individual who identifies with them.
***
PLAYWRIGHTS REALM WRITING FELLOWSHIP
The Writing Fellowship is at the heart of what we do: helping writers write. Four early-career playwrights receive nine months of resources, readings and feedback designed to help them reach their professional and artistic goals. The culminating event of the program is our INK’D Festival, which features public readings of each Fellows’ play.
***
Theatre Three 25th Annual Festival of One-Act Plays
Since its inception in 1998, The Festival has received over 10,000 submissions from across the world and produced 132 world premieres by 102 different playwrights. The Festival presents between five and seven plays each season.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** THE LION KING ***
The show, adapted from the hit 1994 animated film, is the outcome of a seemingly improbable relationship between Disney, an entertainment colossus best known for movies and theme parks, and Julie Taymor, an avant-garde director whose work in opera and nonprofit theater had won her a MacArthur “genius” grant in 1991. Her work on “The Lion King” earned Taymor an important distinction in theater history: In 1998, she became the first woman to win a Tony Award for directing a musical.
JULIE TAYMOR: I was in L.A., working on an opera, and he called me and asked me if he could talk about it, and I told him I had not seen it, which shocked him. “Oh, my God, she hadn’t seen the animated film!” In those days, if you were doing the kind of theater that I was doing, you weren’t really interested in Broadway. [And] I didn’t watch a lot of Disney stuff then.
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/16/theater/the-lion-king-25th-anniversary.html
***
The Lion King recently celebrated its 25th anniversary on Broadway. While two Broadway juggernauts have previously reached this milestone, The Lion King marks several historic firsts. Never before has a show in its 25th year been playing in so many productions around the world simultaneously and placed in the Top 5 grossing Broadway shows this long - more than 1,300 consecutive weeks and counting.
More...
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-LION-KING-Sets-New-Record-For-Highest-Grossing-Week-in-Broadway-History-20230104
***
As of the week ending Oct. 20, 2013 The Lion King is on track to become the first Broadway musical to gross $1 billion at the box office. The Tony-winning international hit The Phantom of the Opera, which premiered in January 1988 and is now entering its 26th year on Broadway, trails The Lion King with a gross of $930 million expected by Oct. 20.
The national tour of The Lion King beat its flagship Broadway predecessor to the $1 billion mark earlier this summer.
"This humbling milestone is a testament to the vision and artistry of Julie Taymor," said Thomas Schumacher, president and producer of Disney Theatrical Productions, in a statement. "For nearly 17 years she has been The Lion King's guiding creative force and an inspiration to the show's brilliant cast, musicians and crew. But above all, we thank our loving audiences who continue to be moved and delighted night after night at the Minskoff Theatre and all around the world."
More...
https://playbill.com/article/disneys-the-lion-king-will-set-broadway-record-with-1-billion-at-the-box-office-com-210703
***
Tony Award-winning director and designer Julie Taymor, along with designer Michael Curry, hand sculpted and painted every prototype mask that now appears in the iconic “Circle of Life” opening of the show.
It took approximately 37,000 hours to build all the puppets and masks; which is over 1,542 days!
There are 232 puppets in the show, including rod, shadow and full-sized puppets. Some of these were even inspired by Japanese Bunraku puppetry.
With the masks, Taymor created what she calls “the double event” which enables the audience to see the characters as animal and human at the same time.
Mufasa’s mask weighs 11 ounces, Scar’s mask weighs seven ounces and Sarabi’s mask is just four ounces. The masks, along with many others used in the show, are extremely lightweight (just under one pound) and are comprised of silicone rubber (to form the mask imprint) with carbon graphite overlay - the same durable material used to build airplanes. Over 750 pounds of silicone rubber were used to make the masks.
Scar and Mufasa each wear two different masks: one moves and one is a stationary headdress.
The tallest animals in the show are the four, 18-foot exotic giraffes from “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King.” The two giraffes in “Circle of Life” are 14 feet high. Two actors trained in stilt-walking, climb 6-foot ladders to fit inside the puppets, mount stilts and enter stage left to cross the stage.
The largest and longest animal in the show is the Elephant (nicknamed “Bertha” by the back stage crew when the show premiered in 1997). At 13 feet long and 9 feet wide, the puppet requires four actors to carefully walk her down the orchestra aisle. When not occupied by the actors, the puppet can collapse down flat for convenient backstage storage.
More...
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/lion-king-you-need-know-7403212
***
Such is the transporting magic wrought by the opening 10 minutes of ''The Lion King,'' the director Julie Taymor's staged version of the Midas-touch cartoon movie that has generated millions for the Walt Disney Company. And the ways in which Ms. Taymor translates the film's opening musical number, ''Circle of Life,'' where an animal kingdom of the African plains gathers to pay homage to its leonine ruler and his newly born heir, is filled with astonishment and promise.
For one thing, it is immediately clear that this production, which opened last night, is not going to follow the path pursued by Disney's first Broadway venture, ''Beauty and the Beast,'' a literal-minded exercise in turning its cinematic model into three dimensions. Ms. Taymor, a maverick artist known for her bold multicultural experiments with puppetry and ritualized theater, has her own distinctive vision, one that is miles away from standard Disney fare.
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/14/movies/theater-review-cub-comes-of-age-a-twice-told-cosmic-tale.html
***
THE LION KING (FEAT. ROSIE LANI FIEDELMAN, BLAKE HAMMOND, KIMBERLY MARABLE, ARBENDER ROBINSON, L. STEVEN TAYLOR)
Several of The Lion King’s beloved cast members are joining us to share some of their favorite memories of working on the show. These pieces were originally shared on our blog to celebrate The Lion King’s 20th anniversary in 2017. Here, in their own words, are Rosie Lani Fiedelman, Blake Hammond, Kimberly Marable, Arbender Robinson & L. Steven Taylor
More...
https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/the-ensemblist/418-the-lion-king-feat-rosie-lani-fiedelman-blake-hammond-kimberly-marable-arbender-robinson-l-steven-taylor/
***
THE LION KING Australia: Cast Sings Circle of Life on Flight Home from Brisbane
59,743,730 views Apr 1, 2014
Australian cast member Toni Stewart captured this amazing impromptu 'Circle of Life' performance on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney. The cast had just had an amazing day at THE LION KING Brisbane season launch announcement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSLxl1oAwA
Since its inception in 1998, The Festival has received over 10,000 submissions from across the world and produced 132 world premieres by 102 different playwrights. The Festival presents between five and seven plays each season.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** THE LION KING ***
The show, adapted from the hit 1994 animated film, is the outcome of a seemingly improbable relationship between Disney, an entertainment colossus best known for movies and theme parks, and Julie Taymor, an avant-garde director whose work in opera and nonprofit theater had won her a MacArthur “genius” grant in 1991. Her work on “The Lion King” earned Taymor an important distinction in theater history: In 1998, she became the first woman to win a Tony Award for directing a musical.
JULIE TAYMOR: I was in L.A., working on an opera, and he called me and asked me if he could talk about it, and I told him I had not seen it, which shocked him. “Oh, my God, she hadn’t seen the animated film!” In those days, if you were doing the kind of theater that I was doing, you weren’t really interested in Broadway. [And] I didn’t watch a lot of Disney stuff then.
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/16/theater/the-lion-king-25th-anniversary.html
***
The Lion King recently celebrated its 25th anniversary on Broadway. While two Broadway juggernauts have previously reached this milestone, The Lion King marks several historic firsts. Never before has a show in its 25th year been playing in so many productions around the world simultaneously and placed in the Top 5 grossing Broadway shows this long - more than 1,300 consecutive weeks and counting.
More...
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-LION-KING-Sets-New-Record-For-Highest-Grossing-Week-in-Broadway-History-20230104
***
As of the week ending Oct. 20, 2013 The Lion King is on track to become the first Broadway musical to gross $1 billion at the box office. The Tony-winning international hit The Phantom of the Opera, which premiered in January 1988 and is now entering its 26th year on Broadway, trails The Lion King with a gross of $930 million expected by Oct. 20.
The national tour of The Lion King beat its flagship Broadway predecessor to the $1 billion mark earlier this summer.
"This humbling milestone is a testament to the vision and artistry of Julie Taymor," said Thomas Schumacher, president and producer of Disney Theatrical Productions, in a statement. "For nearly 17 years she has been The Lion King's guiding creative force and an inspiration to the show's brilliant cast, musicians and crew. But above all, we thank our loving audiences who continue to be moved and delighted night after night at the Minskoff Theatre and all around the world."
More...
https://playbill.com/article/disneys-the-lion-king-will-set-broadway-record-with-1-billion-at-the-box-office-com-210703
***
Tony Award-winning director and designer Julie Taymor, along with designer Michael Curry, hand sculpted and painted every prototype mask that now appears in the iconic “Circle of Life” opening of the show.
It took approximately 37,000 hours to build all the puppets and masks; which is over 1,542 days!
There are 232 puppets in the show, including rod, shadow and full-sized puppets. Some of these were even inspired by Japanese Bunraku puppetry.
With the masks, Taymor created what she calls “the double event” which enables the audience to see the characters as animal and human at the same time.
Mufasa’s mask weighs 11 ounces, Scar’s mask weighs seven ounces and Sarabi’s mask is just four ounces. The masks, along with many others used in the show, are extremely lightweight (just under one pound) and are comprised of silicone rubber (to form the mask imprint) with carbon graphite overlay - the same durable material used to build airplanes. Over 750 pounds of silicone rubber were used to make the masks.
Scar and Mufasa each wear two different masks: one moves and one is a stationary headdress.
The tallest animals in the show are the four, 18-foot exotic giraffes from “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King.” The two giraffes in “Circle of Life” are 14 feet high. Two actors trained in stilt-walking, climb 6-foot ladders to fit inside the puppets, mount stilts and enter stage left to cross the stage.
The largest and longest animal in the show is the Elephant (nicknamed “Bertha” by the back stage crew when the show premiered in 1997). At 13 feet long and 9 feet wide, the puppet requires four actors to carefully walk her down the orchestra aisle. When not occupied by the actors, the puppet can collapse down flat for convenient backstage storage.
More...
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/lion-king-you-need-know-7403212
***
Such is the transporting magic wrought by the opening 10 minutes of ''The Lion King,'' the director Julie Taymor's staged version of the Midas-touch cartoon movie that has generated millions for the Walt Disney Company. And the ways in which Ms. Taymor translates the film's opening musical number, ''Circle of Life,'' where an animal kingdom of the African plains gathers to pay homage to its leonine ruler and his newly born heir, is filled with astonishment and promise.
For one thing, it is immediately clear that this production, which opened last night, is not going to follow the path pursued by Disney's first Broadway venture, ''Beauty and the Beast,'' a literal-minded exercise in turning its cinematic model into three dimensions. Ms. Taymor, a maverick artist known for her bold multicultural experiments with puppetry and ritualized theater, has her own distinctive vision, one that is miles away from standard Disney fare.
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/14/movies/theater-review-cub-comes-of-age-a-twice-told-cosmic-tale.html
***
THE LION KING (FEAT. ROSIE LANI FIEDELMAN, BLAKE HAMMOND, KIMBERLY MARABLE, ARBENDER ROBINSON, L. STEVEN TAYLOR)
Several of The Lion King’s beloved cast members are joining us to share some of their favorite memories of working on the show. These pieces were originally shared on our blog to celebrate The Lion King’s 20th anniversary in 2017. Here, in their own words, are Rosie Lani Fiedelman, Blake Hammond, Kimberly Marable, Arbender Robinson & L. Steven Taylor
More...
https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/the-ensemblist/418-the-lion-king-feat-rosie-lani-fiedelman-blake-hammond-kimberly-marable-arbender-robinson-l-steven-taylor/
***
THE LION KING Australia: Cast Sings Circle of Life on Flight Home from Brisbane
59,743,730 views Apr 1, 2014
Australian cast member Toni Stewart captured this amazing impromptu 'Circle of Life' performance on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney. The cast had just had an amazing day at THE LION KING Brisbane season launch announcement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSLxl1oAwA
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