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Disney Prep Long-Running Lion King for UK Tour???

Editorial Staff
London's West End

The Disney screen-to-stage adaptation of The Lion King, which recently celebrated its 5000th performance at the West End’s Lyceum Theatre, could be set to go on tour next year according to a job advert in The Stage newspaper recruiting a range of backstage technical staff.

Based on Disney’s 1994 animated feature film, the stage adaptation opened at Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theatre in November 1997. Julie Taymor‘s production transferred to the West End in 1999, opening at the Lyceum on 19 October 1999 (previews from 24 September).

Although there are currently 18 global productions of the The Lion King, with the show having been seen by more than 60 million people in 14 countries across five continents, this will be the first time the show has hit the road in the UK.

A spokesperson for the show this afternoon told Whatsonstage.com that although Disney Theatrical Productions were recruiting for a “potential tour” there were no other details being confirmed.

If you have the company management, stage management, automation, electrics, sound, wardrobe, stage, hair and make-up or puppetry skills necessary, Disney are accepting applications via their production manager until 24 November.