The Lion King: Pride Rock On Broadway (A Disney Theatrical Souvenir Book)

Her chronicle lends context to the already lush and abundant illustrations, photographs, and sketches of Taymor and her collaborators at work. You saw the animated film, you bought the video, you couldn't get tickets to the stage show--here's the coffee-table book. . But wait: what keeps The Lion King: Pride Rock on Broadway from being just another commercial Disney tie-in is the iconoclastic voice of director/designer Julie Taymor. She uses the text of this book as a diary for her personal struggle to merge her off-off-Broadway avant-garde sensibility with Disney's unabashedly bigtime commercial one

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Disney meets the avant-garde in this sensational theatrical event that promises to be the most exciting, most spectacular, and most publicized stage show of the decade. The Lion King features a full developmental history of the production, recreated through beautiful artwork, photographs, and behind-the-scenes details.

Julie Taymor is a director of theater, opera, and film. In addition to The Lion King, her theater projects include The Green Bird, The Magic Flute, Taming of the Shrew and Juan Darien.. She also received the 2012 Director Award for Vision and Courage from Barnard College, Her other notable projects include the films Frida, The Tempest Across the Universe, an