North West Among Cast Additions To ‘The Lion King’ Concert Event At Hollywood Bowl

Patrick Hipes

8 May 2024 at 9:00 am·2-min read

North West, Broadway’s Heather Headley and Grammy winner Lebo M. have been added to the cast of Disney’s The Lion King 30th Anniversary – A Live-to-Film Concert Event, a musical concert set to run May 24-25 at the Hollywood Bowl.

They join previously announced cast and franchise veterans Billy Eichner, Bradley Gibson, Ernie Sabella, Jason Weaver, Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane and special guest Jennifer Hudson for the two-night event, which will feature a full orchestra performing Hans Zimmer’s Oscar-winning score. The cast will perform songs and numbers featuring the Broadway show’s costumes, set design and puppetry.

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Disney Concerts and Fulwell 73 Productions along with AMP Worldwide and Live Nation-Hewitt Silva, the team behind Disney’s Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl (four Emmy noms) and the Emmy-winning Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium, are producing the events. The footage will become part of a Disney+ Original special, The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl, celebrating the franchise’s 30 years.

A streaming date has not been set. The next installment in the franchise, Barry Jenkins’ prequel Mufasa: The Lion King, will hit theaters in December.

West, the daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, broke into feature films voicing a role in last year’s PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie and becomes the latest daughter of a major music artist to join a Lion King cast; Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter Blue Ivy Carter is in the voice cast of Mufasa.

Headley, a Tony winner for Aida, played Nala in the original Broadway production of The Lion King. Lebo M. worked with Zimmer on the original films’ soundtracks as a composer and vocalist as well as on the Broadway musical.

For the Hollywood Bowl concerts, Gabe Turner and Sally Wood are creative showrunners, Paul Dugdale will direct and Misty Buckley is production designer.

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