Scar uses three different walking sticks.Worn like a back pack, the Pumbaa puppet is the heaviest costume, weighing in at 45 pounds.The Timon meerkat puppet weighs 15 pounds.Zazu is the last animal to make his entrance on stage in the “Circle of Life” opening number.The smallest animal is the trick mouse at the end of Scar’s cane at just five inches.When not occupied by the actors, the puppet can collapse down flat for convenient backstage storage. At 13 feet long, 12 feet high and 9 feet wide, the puppet requires four actors to carefully walk her down the orchestra aisle. The largest and longest animal in the show is the Elephant (nicknamed “Bertha” by the back stage crew when the show premiered in 1997).Two actors trained in stilt-walking, climb 6-foot ladders to fit inside the puppets, mount stilts and enter stage left to cross the stage. The tallest animals in the show are the four, 18-foot exotic giraffes from “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King.” The two giraffes in “Circle of Life” are 14 feet high.Scar and Mufasa each wear two different masks: one moves and one is a stationary headdress.Over 750 pounds of silicone rubber were used to make the masks. The masks, along with many others used in the show, are extremely lightweight (just under one pound) and are comprised of silicone rubber (to form the mask imprint) with carbon fiber overlay - the same durable material used to build airplanes. Mufasa’s mask weighs 11 ounces, Scar’s mask weighs seven ounces and Sarabi’s mask is just four ounces.With the masks, Taymor created what she calls "the double event," which enables the audience to see the characters as animal and human at the same time.Their department of skilled mask makers, sculptors, puppeteers and artisans spent 17,000 hours to build the anthropomorphic animal characters for the original Broadway production.
Tony® Award-winning director and designer Julie Taymor, along with designer Michael Curry, hand sculpted and painted every prototype mask that now appears in the iconic “Circle of Life” opening of the show.1999 Laurence Olivier Awards - Best Choreography and Best Costume Design.1999 Evening Standard Award - Theatrical Event of the Year.1998 NY Drama Critics Circle Award - Best Musical.1998 Tony® - Best Choreography - Garth Fagan.1998 Tony® - Best Lighting Design - Donald Holder.1998 Tony® - Best Costume Design - Julie Taymor.1998 Tony® - Best Scenic Design - Richard Hudson.1998 Tony® - Best Direction of a Musical - Julie Taymor (making Taymor the first woman in theatrical history bestowed with the honor).Winner of more than 70 global theatrical awards including:
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