In it, performers from "The Lion King" were stranded at New York's LaGuardia Airport and sang to pass the time. Michael Seitzman, the show's creator and writer, came up with the idea a few years ago after watching a viral video on YouTube.
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"When they started singing, it was electric. "When they came on set, they had that energy of harmony and synchronicity," she said. Soon "The Lion King" performers are belting out a powerful version of "He Lives in You." Harden said the theatre pros transformed the filming process. That story line is fused with another about a boy and his father. In the episode, titled "The Son Rises," White plays an actor who portrays Mufasa in a touring version of the Disney musical who arrives at Angels Memorial hospital with a nasty throat infection.Ī handful of fellow cast members - picked from the real touring production of "The Lion King" - come to his bedside to pray he'll pull through and be able to sing again. "This is such a beautiful cap to my 'Lion King' experience." It was like, 'Wow,"' said White, who was flown from New York to Los Angeles to film the show, which airs in Canada on CTV.
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"To be a part of the two worlds colliding? Incredible.
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NEW YORK - The medical drama CBS' "Code Black" gets a dose of Broadway magic this week when cast members from "The Lion King" - and one memorable Mufasa - end up in the emergency room.Īlton Fitzgerald White, who has played Simba's father in the musical over a record-breaking 4,000 times, came out of "The Lion King" retirement to appear on Wednesday's episode of the series starring Marcia Gay Harden.