Word: taymor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These are just a few of the images that greet visitors to Juan Darien, a self-described "carnival Mass" being staged at New York City's Lincoln Center. Adapted from an Uruguayan story by innovative stage director and designer Julie Taymor, it is a visually dazzling and utterly original piece of stagecraft. But perhaps more startling is what its creator is doing next. Taymor, a leading light of New York's experimental theater scene, has been picked by Disney to turn its all-time biggest movie hit, The Lion King, into a Broadway show...
...might appear that Disney has hakuna matata'd right off the deep end. Taymor's highly stylized theater work--using masks, puppetry, mime and other non-Western techniques--seems as far from classic Disney animation (and from those dancing teapots in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast) as one can imagine. Taymor admits she was surprised when Thomas Schumacher, a Disney vice president, first asked her if she would like to develop a theatrical concept for The Lion King. "I'm sure if they find something that doesn't work, they'll tell me," she says. "But they asked...