![]() The largest animal is the elephant, which is 13 feet long, 12 feet high and nine feet wide, and requires four actors to operate. The tallest animals in the procession - each operated by a stilt-walking actor-puppeteer fully visible to the audience, are the two 14-foot-tall giraffes. (Courtesy of Deen van Meer/Disney Theatricals) To create a center aisle for the parade at the Civic Theatre, dozens of seats must be removed from the center of each row from the orchestra pit to the dress circle seats. The show famously begins with the animal procession to celebrate the birth of the future lion king, Simba, at Africa’s Pride Rock. ![]() Today, “Lion King” is the highest-grossing musical in Broadway history and it has beaten out all musicals and films worldwide for total box-office gross, according to Disney Theatrical Productions. The Broadway production won six Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Direction for Taymor, who became the first woman in Tony history to receive the musical directing prize. The show’s animal menagerie includes 22 wildebeest, 39 hyenas, 15 gazelles, 12 bird kites and three zebras. Among the show’s most unique costume elements are the 20 grassland headdresses, which must be rebuilt with 3,000 stalks of grass each year. Although the actors playing lions in the musical wear lightweight silicone rubber masks on their forehead so their faces aren’t obscured, the puppet for Puumba the warthog weighs 45 pounds.
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