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Beyond a dream to be in the Pridelands. Credits Off-Broadway and regionally including Cleveland Play House, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Disney Cruise Line. TV: “Law & Order: SVU,” “FBI,” “Godfather of Harlem,” “Dynasty” and “Madam Secretary.” Training: CWRU/CPH MFA. Thanks isn’t enough for Harris, JJ, Halley, Matt, and  The Lion King  family. For Mom, Dad, and my everything, Kat.

Gerald is grateful to continue this journey across the continent with The Lion King . Born in Tacoma, Washington – Raised in Aunu’u, American Samoa and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Proud graduate of the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Credits: My Name Is Gary Cooper at Kumu Kahua Theatre. Hā: The Breath of Life, Rainbows of Paradise, The Ali’i Luau at The Polynesian Cultural Center. Tupulaga O Samoa Mo A Taeao at The Merrie Monarch Festival. Ever thankful for the support of friends and especially the love of my aiga. Honored to represent the pride that has come before us. Fa’atuatua -Fa’amoemoe – Alofa IG: @ramsey.gt

Mukelisiwe was born in Durban, South Africa. Training: Mbongeni Ngema’s Academy. Credits: K-Cap , Umoja , and The Lion King (Madrid, Gazelle Tour and Broadway). Television: “Code Black,” “Telethon” (France) and “40 Principals” (Madrid). She was a back-up vocalist for South African Gospel star Rebecca Malope. Mukelisiwe thanks her family for their constant support.

OFF-BROADWAY:  Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (Mint Theater), Hamlet (Theatre by the Blind). REGIONAL: The Alchemist (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Lobby Hero (The Old Globe); Crime and Punishment (Cincinnati Playhouse and Actors Theatre); Henry VI , Richard III (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Comedy of Errors , Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). FILM/TV: Step Up 2 , “Warrior” Season 3 (HBO Max/Netflix). LOVE: Amy, Hero, & Guthrie. Instagram: @Milquetoastpoints  

Broadway: Disney’s The Lion King . Broadway Tour & Tokyo:  WAR HORSE . Off Broadway: The Mint . Regional: Denver Center, The Rep St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, TheaterWorks Hartford, City Theatre Company, Barrington Stage Company, Two River Theater. NY: American Globe Theatre. Television: “Chicago Fire.” BFA: Marymount Manhattan College. All my love to Kate and my parents. www.NickLaMedica.com

Brady is excited to be back in the Pridelands having performed Timon, Pumbaa, and Zazu on Broadway. He also appeared in the original cast and film of NEWSIES the Musical. He has performed in every venue you can imagine and done over a hundred radio commercials and just as many TV commercials. His favorite role? Dad.

Trained as a musician with trumpet, he’s toured internationally as an instrumentalist, conductor, and performer. As an ordained worship pastor, Darian regularly leads worship while on tour. Honor first to Jesus Christ. Endless love to Jessica & Titus, family/friends, & Peggy at The Square Peg Group Inc. Regional Credits: Jesus Christ Superstar (Jesus), Songs for a New World (Man One), Hairspray (Seaweed). Film/TV: Someone Worthy , New York Homicide . IG/Twitter: @_DarianSanders_. www.dariansanders.com

“To whom much is given much is required.” Broadway: Caroline or Change , Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors (Ronnette), School of Rock 1st Nat; Aida (Aida), Ain’t Misbehavin , The Bodyguard , Smokey Joe’s Cafe , Dreamgirls , Beehive , Hairspray , HKDL|WDW(Nala/Tiana/Kibibi)/NCL, #TheSearchForRoxie, UCF Alumknight. Thank you God, family, friends & Dave.  Check out “You Ok? (Black Girl)” on all streaming platforms. IG|Tiktok:@Lifaland, www.khalifawhite.com. -For Mommy, my Expressionist.

Thrilled to be making his Lion King debut! Off – Broadway: Dog Man: The Musical (George/Chief, Lucille Lortel Theatre), Cadaver Synod (Pope Formosus, Playwrights Horizon). Regional: Mystic Pizza: A New Musical (Lionel Hampton, Ogunquit Playhouse), Choir Boy (David, Marin Theatre Company), Goddess (Mosi, Eugene O’Neill Theater). “I want to thank my parents who are my biggest cheerleaders!!”

Martina is elated to be joining the Pridelands! Native of St. Petersburg, Fla. and graduate of the University of Florida. Favorite credits: Motown The Musical (Broadway and First National Tour), Raindogs, Rent and Hairspray . I would like to thank God, my family and friends for their unconditional love and support. Ephesians 3:20. Instagram: Ladysykes1 www.theheARTmission.org

Robbie is honored and excited to return to THE LION KING family. Stage credits include Snoopy!, Rumbles, The Red Flower, Water Children, Our Town, Godspell, etc. Film/Television: On The Run (Hyperboy), “Fastlane” (Fox), “Urban Graffiti” (Fox), “Scrubs” (NBC), etc. Many thanks to God, Mom, Dad, The Starting Five, Family and Friends. Special thanks to Barry, Karen and Lois Yvonne. Robbie is a proud member of AEA, SAG and ASCAP. I dedicate this show to my beautiful wife, Lisa. You are my heart, my life, and my inspiration. Thanks for marrying me.

she/her. Ritisha is joining the Pridelands from Basking Ridge, NJ. Her Broadway credits include  The Skin of our Teeth  and 29-hour readings for the  Radio Galaxy  and  The Lunchbox . Off-Broadway:  Fifty Key Stage Musicals  at 54 Below, NYC. Other theater credits include playing Annie in  Annie Jr. (W. Orange, NJ). Film credits include Concessions  and  Bubblegum Rox  (Short) and TV: “Sesame St – Together We Can.” Instagram: @ritisha.chak

From NYC and thrilled to join the Pridelands! Professional credits include Anastasia National Tour and Sesame Street . Many thanks to my coaches – Raquel & MVS, Janine & DMO, and Rance, my incredible team at Nouveaux and Zuri, and friends and teachers at PS59 for your love and support! @leelachopraofficial

From Phoenix, AZ, Jaxyn is thrilled to make her Broadway National Tour debut in The Lion King ! Thank you to the entire Disney team and Binder Casting. Very grateful to family, friends, Renee Koher, Kenny Grossman, Karen McCollester, Spotlight Youth Theatre, and ABT for their love and support! Instagram @jaxyn.damasco

An 11-year-old from Atlanta, GA, Mase is ecstatic to make his Broadway Tour debut. He has trained under playwright and Emmy nominated songwriter Stepp Stewart, AGI Entertainment and Music Studio Atlanta. Mase has performed in numerous regional productions including: Motown Motor City Revue , A Soulful Christmas & Fox Theatre Summer Concert Series. IG: @mase_lawson

Is excited to join the Pridelands! (Credits) Broadway: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical National Tour, TV: “Disney’s Sydney to the Max,” Film: The Microchip that Ruined Halloween. She has a single out called “Imagination.” Aniya loves spending time with her family, singing and dancing. IG: @aniya.simone

Is excited to join The Lion King  National Tour! Recent stage credits:   X: Life and Times of Malcolm X  (Young Malcolm, NY Metropolitan Opera).  Other credits:  The Devil Will Run (Shah – Lead), NBC’s “Bluff City Law.”  Bryce would like to thank his family, friends, and manager, Peggy Stamps of The SquarePeg Group, Inc., for their love and support. IG: _bryce_christian  

Thrilled to make his National Tour debut! Last seen at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and Orlando Family Stage. Enjoys singing and martial arts with his sister Alejandra. Thanks to mom, dad, family, friends, Arc Casting, Disney, BAA, Yael Chanukov (voice) and The First Academy. Representation: Barry Kolker. IG: @julianvillela26

Glory! Theater: The Wiz, Arkansas Repertory, The Color Purple, West Coast Black Theater Troupe, Hairspray , Royal Caribbean. She would like to Thank God, family, and mentors for all of their love and support. Psalm 23.

New York Theatre: Measure for Measure, On the Verge. Regional: Trinity Rep, Hartford Stage. MFA: Brown/Trinity Rep. Voice over artist: Nigel the Xyzal owl. WilliamJohnAustin.com

A dream to be joining the Pridelands! Training: The Ailey School, BFA: Florida State. Favorite credits: The Met Gala, After Midnight (NCL), Oklahoma! (DCPA), The Music Man (Goodspeed). Commercial: Fujifilm, Shea Moisture, Toyota, Con Edison.  Love to my family & friends. @iman.ayana

Originally from Bermuda, Eric attended the University of the Arts (Phila. PA) where he received his BFA in Dance Education & Choreography. A finalist in the Philadelphia A.W.A.R.D.S. competition, Mr. Bean has taught and choreographed nationally & internationally; offering master classes /workshops whenever available. Credits: Koresh Dance Co, Don Arden’s Jubilee!, Viking Ocean. Regional: The Little Mermaid, Beauty & the Beast, Once on this Island . IG: EBJDANCE

Since graduating from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Layla has performed with Beckles Dancing Company, the Oklahoma City Ballet, and SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical as Ensemble/Adult Dara.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Vernon is a graduate of Pace University and has performed with Martha Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company and Parsons Dance Co. Vernon is honored to now be part of The Lion King .

Sasha was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She trained at New World School of the Arts for both the HS and BFA program. Sasha has performed on stages such as the San Francisco Opera House, Adrienne Arsht Center, The Fillmore, Perez Art Museum, Lincoln Theater. She is forever grateful to have the opportunity of traveling and being on stage with such a company. IG: @Delayla

Is thrilled to be joining the Pridelands! Bway: New York, New York . BFA Elmhurst College. Thankful for my wonderful agents, my incredible family, and especially God. Romans 8:28. Insta: thisislaurencarr

Born in Durban, South Africa. Credits Include: The Nat & Natalie Show with Colin Penn , Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses , Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors , Disney’s The Lion King (Broadway, U.K., Ireland Tour and US Nat’l Tour), #D23EXPO 2017. TV Appearance: “ETV Popstars 2010.” She gives thanks to God and family. Instagram: lihlecele91 Twitter: cele_lihle

Daniela is a graduate of Alabama State University. She has shared her artistry and love for theatre in many places. Other Theatres: Melantho and Ensemble in The Odyssey ; Swing in Disney’s Beauty and T he Beast ; Alto Pit Singer in The Wiz . Understudy: Dorothy/Lion in The Wiz ; Dorcas in The Winter’s Tale ; Uma and Ensemble in Roe (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Kassidy in These Three Words (Montgomery Performing Arts Center); Gabriel in Black Nativity , Lady in Orange in For Colored Girls …, Deena in Dreamgirls , Whitney Houston in One Moment in Time (also Cloverdale Playhouse), Shug Avery/Church Ladies in The Color Purple (Alabama State University).

Has performed in the 1st National Tour and Broadway productions of The Lion King  and is thrilled to be joining the Rafiki Tour. Recent: Live in Concert’s Hollywood Bowl productions of  The Little Mermaid  (2019) and  Beauty and the Beast  (2018). Other credits: Hollywood Fringe Festival’s  A Soldier’s Play ,  Sirens of Titan  (Sacred Fools Company),  Carmen  (La Jolla Playhouse),  West Side Story  (Trinity Repertory Company) and George C. Wolfe’s Harlem Song (Apollo Theatre).

Lyric is elated to be making her debut in the Pridelands! She is a graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA program and her favorite credits include: The Bodyguard, Oscar At The Crown, and the NBA Boston Celtics. @lyricdanae

Broadway tours:  Cats ,  The Prom . Regional:  West Side Story  (Lyric Opera of Chicago),  A Chorus Line  (Cincinnati Playhouse),  Cats  (RCCL), Newsies . Alum of Sarah Lawrence College and LaGuardia Arts HS. Thanks ATB! Love you, Mom, Laura, and my cats, Mr. Business and Luna! Instagram: @dawkinsmaurice.

Versatile Artist/Choreographer. Trained in St. Petersburg, FL. A graduate of the Boston Conservatory. Gene Kelly Artist Award Winner. Featured credits: Dance Theater Of Harlem, Bad Boys of Ballet, Super Bowl LV Halftime Show, 2021 VMA Awards, Apple+ Dickinson , and Fire Shut Up In My Bones at the Metropolitan Opera House. Marquis is ecstatic to be making his debut in the Pridelands!

Played Zazu on Broadway and across the country for over 3,000 performances. Now he loves also getting to play Scar, Timon, and Pumbaa. He did Tony Kushner’s musical Caroline, or Change in Los Angeles and San Francisco with the original Broadway cast. Tony has performed guest roles on both “Law and Order” (twice) and “Law and Order, SVU.”

Broadway/NYC: The Phantom of the Opera , The Light in the Piazza (NYCC), A Chorus Line (NYCC), The Radio City Christmas Spectacular , Nixon in China (The Met). Favorite Regional: Little Dancer (The Kennedy Center). @jojolinajavier

A Parisian with roots from Martinique. Ailey School graduate. Credits: The Lion King (Paris), Sony Music Entertainment, Classical Theater of Harlem, Shirley Black Brown, Christopher L. Huggins, Ronald K. Brown, Ruddur Dance, Creative Outlet. Featured in Omah Lay’s “SOSO” music video, Asake’s Barclays Center concert. @valerianellj

Happy to be returning to The Lion King after performing in the Broadway and German companies. Other credits include Aida (Germany) , Ain’t Misbehavin’ (UK) , With A Song In My Heart (UK) , Dancing in the Streets (West End) , Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (West End), and proud uncle to Kennedi (Tampa). After telling this story in 4 languages, in 3 foreign countries, Joel is thrilled to be performing on America’s national tour.  

Began training at Dance Institute of Washington, in addition to Dance Theatre of Harlem, Kansas City Ballet and The Alvin Ailey School. Samaree has worked with Kevin Malone, Hope Boykin and Anthony Burrell. This is Samaree’s Broadway debut.

Born in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, Gabisile has previously performed with The Lion King in Australia, Holland and Spain, and throughout the world with other international performing groups, including Africa Umoja, Stamping and Mother Africa.

A Native New Yorker who at an early age fell in love with the stage. To further develop his craft, he studied at Harlem School of the Arts and the Institute for American Musical Theatre.

Overjoyed to join the Pridelands! Broadway: Harry Potter & the Cursed Child . Off-Bway: Gospel According to Heather. Endless gratitude to her loved ones for their support, her agents, ARC, & The Lion King family for the opportunity to be part of this incredible legacy. @saritaamani

A South African native, Nhlanhla has been singing since before he could talk and loves live music and performances. He is grateful to be back onstage and is excited to be traveling across the country with this show. He’s been with The Lion King for over half a decade now and has worked with the Broadway cast, North American tour and the Madrid cast in Spain. God is good all the time. Ayikho Inkomo Yobuthongo

Proud Chicagoan. BA in Arts Management from Columbia College Chicago. Regional theater credits include columbinus 2.0 (ATC), RENT (ATC) and Dreamgirls (Theater 47). Television credits include “Chicago Fire” (NBC), “Unforgettable” (CBS) “The Breaks” (Vh1). Love to his wife, son, daughter, parents and family. Dedicates this performance to his uncle Dr. Larry E. Ross.

Thrilled to be making his Broadway debut! He’s grateful to be back on the stage. Originally from Bucks County, PA. Past credits include: SKELETON CREW (Dez), SISTER ACT (TJ). Ithaca College, BFA MT ‘21. Insta: @Jeremynoel13

Originally from Mpumalanga Delmas in South Africa, Sicelo formed a band with close family friends in 2012, performing at weddings and events. In 2016 he took part in DStv’s choir singing show “Clash of the Choirs” and in 2017 he joined The Lion King ’s Madrid Production.

Is grateful to be joining the PRIDELANDS!! Theatre credits include: Jesus Christ Superstar  (National Tour) , Motown the Musical  (National Tour),  Songs For A New World  (The Cape Playhouse) and  Rent  (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). TV: “Law & Order Organized Crime” and “FBI: Most Wanted.” Training: New York Conservatory For Dramatic Arts. IG: @erickdpatrick

Raised in Stevensville, MI of Liberian descent. T.V.: Fosse/Verdon Series on FX. Tour: An American In Paris (1st National). Regional: Cats , Sister Act , and Evita (Marriott Lincolnshire). Thanks to Binder Casting. Here to Persevere!

Disney’s The Lion King : Broadway, North American Tour, Singapore, London, Melbourne and Sydney (since 2003); A Christmas Carol (2013-14), Festival of The Lion King , HK (2007-08). Part of various Philippine Musical Theater Companies (2000-14) and Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company (1985-94). Grateful to be back on stage!

Broadway: Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas .  1st national tour Newsies .  Dance: Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys of Dance.  Thanks to The Lion King creative team, Disney, Binder Casting and family for love and support.

Is a South African singer and actress. International theater credits: Disney’s The Lion King (West End), The Magic Flute , The Mysteries , Aesop’s Fables , A Christmas Carol . Television: “M-Net’s Idols” (Runner-Up), “Forced Love” (SABC1 mini-series). Poseletso has performed with international artists Michael Bolton, Josh Groban, Beyonce and Westlife.  

Overjoyed to join this production. Attended: American Musical and Dramatic Academy NY. Regional credits: Tarzan ;  Dreamgirls; Hairspray; Little Shop; International: Beauty and the Beast Tour and Disney cruise lines. “I thank my family and friends for their constant and overflowing prayers and support!!”

Incredibly humbled to be rejoining The Lion King National Tour. Born in Atlanta, Ga he began dancing at North Atlanta High School at 16 under the direction of Tracy Vogt and immediately fell in love with arts. He studied dance at AREA (Atlanta’s Resource for Entertainment and Arts) under the direction of Jai Jones and is humbled that The Lion King is his first professional work as a dancer. Insta:@cthomdance94

Broadway: Girl from the North Country . TV: “Law & Order.” National Tour/Regional credits: Swept Away (Berkeley Rep—World Premiere), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (National Tour), Jubilee (Arena Stage). Thanks to his family, CGF and the creatives. BFA in Musical Theatre from Texas State University. @B_toomer

Ecstatically joining the Pridelands! Select credits: Moulin Rouge! The Musical (1st National Tour), The Scottsboro Boys (MTI Pilot), Boys in the Band (Windy City Playhouse), “Utopia” (Amazon Prime). Thanks to Gray Talent and my amazing friends and family! @edensbee1

Is so honored to join the legacy of the legendary  The Lion King! BrinieWallace.com, PSU’12. Special thanks to: Roger Graziani, YoungArts Foundation, Avalon Artists Group, her family, the Volkman’s, the Tombros’, Jen Waldman, Dr. Beverly Patton and Kate Emerich.  

20 years with The Lion King on Broadway, tour and Shanghai. B’way: Once Upon a Mattress . Regional faves: La Cage… (Albin), Ragtime (Tateh), Pippin (Charles/Berthe), Next to Normal (Dan), Bruce Sussman and Barry Manilow’s Harmony ; World Premiere (Harry), Peter and the Starcatcher (Stache), and Spring Awakening (Adult Men). www.thomchristopherwarren.com; Rep: FSE Talent. Love to Adam & Columbus family

Native of Dallas, TX, Jordan Nicole Willis received her education from Booker T. Washington HSPVA and Point Park University. Since graduating she’s performed with The Black Iris Project, Houston Contemporary Dance Company, Open Dance Project and B.MOORE Dance.

Broadway:  Aladdin , Frozen, Moulin Rouge, School of Rock ,  Something Rotten!, Rocky, Annie, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway, Billy Elliot the Musical ,  Cat on A Hot Tin Roof  (2008 Revival),  Les Misérables  (2006 Revival), The  History Boys ,  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ,  Bombay Dreams ,  Thoroughly Modern Millie ,  The Wild Party ,  The Scarlet Pimpernel  (1.0, 2.0, 3.0). Off-Broadway:  Elaine Stritch: At Liberty  – The Public Theater. National tours:  Frozen, Billy Elliot the Musical ,  Carousel . Other: Associate Production Supervisor –  The Lion King  (Worldwide) &  Frozen ( Tokyo, North American Tour), Jimmy Buffett’s  Don’t Stop the Carnival  –   Nassau, Bahamas.

Broadway: Love Life (Encores), Fish In The Dark , Matilda , Forever Tango , Chaplin . NYC: The Public Theater, Audible, The New Group, Red Bull, The Shed, Atlantic; TV: “Encore!” (Disney+), NBC’s “The Wiz Live.” Regional: Kennedy Center, Bucks County, Goodspeed, Williamstown, Old Globe. Education: University of Arizona & Juilliard. For Dad, Mom, & Julie.

Broadway: The Phantom of the Opera . Off-Broadway: Silence! The Musical , The Fantasticks , Triassic Parq , Wanda’s World . Regional theatres including: Ogunquit Playhouse, Fulton Theatre, Crossroads Theatre Company. Love and thanks to Mom, Dad and Aunt Joan. Twitter: @HeadsetChatter

(He/Him). National Tours: Disney’s Aladdin , CATS, The Color Purple . Regional: …  Death of Queens; Eclipsed; All The Way; A Doll’s House, Part 2; The Wolves  (Southern Rep Theatre). BA, Loyola University New Orleans. Love to my family and friends! Live your dream!

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Giraffes strut, birds swoop, gazelles leap - the entire Serengeti comes to life. And as the music soars, Pride Rock slowly rises from the stage. This is THE LION KING. A spectacular visual feast, this adaptation of Disney's much-loved film transports you to a dazzling world that explodes with glorious colors, stunning effects and enchanting music. At its heart is the powerful and moving story of Simba, and his epic journey from wide-eyed cub to his destined role as King of the Pridelands. The Lion King won six 1998 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Scenic Design (Richard Hudson), Best Costume Design (Julie Taymor), Best Lighting Design (Donald Holder), Best Choreography (Garth Fagan) and Best Direction of a Musical, making Taymor the first woman in theatrical history bestowed with the honor. The Lion King has also earned more than 70 major arts awards including the 1998 NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, the 1999 Grammy for Best Musical Show Album, the 1999 Evening Standard Award for Theatrical Event of the Year and the 1999 Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Choreography and Best Costume Design.

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Tickets for the return of Disney’s The Lion King at the Ohio Theatre are currently on sale. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase.

Now in its 27th year, Disney's game-changing, Tony Award-winning global megahit THE LION KING has once again taken over OC's Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa for another month of performances that continues through February 25, 2024. Even today, the show still manages to elicit genuine wonder and awe for kids and adults alike.

In an effort to ensure the safety of patrons, the touring company and Keller Auditorium staff, the performance of Disney’s The Lion King in Portland at Keller Auditorium tonight, Friday, January 19 at 7:30pm is cancelled due to ongoing icy conditions.

The Lion King will once again leap onto the Hobby Center stage on Thursday, July 11, 2024 for a limited four-week engagement through Sunday, August 4, 2024.

Get the latest news on Disney's The Lion King North American Tour as Mukelisiwe Goba makes a triumphant return as 'Rafiki'. Find out all the details and dates for this highly anticipated production.

Disney Theatrical Productions, along with the Kimmel Cultural Campus and The Shubert Organization, is celebrating the eagerly-awaited return engagement of Disney's The Lion King for a 4-week summer engagement at the Academy of Music on the Kimmel Cultural Campus.

The North American tour of Disney’s The Lion King will welcome back Syndee Winters as “Nala” from August 22 through October 29, 2023. Learn how to purchase tickets to The Lion King!

September 14, 2021, is a day I will never forget.  After an 18-month break due to Covid, Broadway reopened.  Something special happened that morning.  On Good Morning America, there was a special performance from 'The Lion King' that had the cast in places around New York City, awakening the city and Broadway, leading to the cast gathering in Time Square, all during a performance of the opening song 'Circle of Life.' After an eight-year break in Des Moines, you can finally experience the breathtaking opening of 'The Lion King' again during its multi-week run at Des Moines Performing Arts.  Iowa is happy to have the show back again if the audience is any indication.

All new production photos have been released for Disney’s The Lion King North American tour, featuring Darian Sanders (Simba) and new cast members Peter Hargrave (Scar), Nick LaMedica (Zazu) and Khalifa White (Nala).

Watch Heather Headley (Broadway’s original Nala and star of Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias) surprise longtime fan Khalifa White (Nala in The Lion King tour) following a performance backstage.

Disney’s The Lion King, St. Louis’s most eagerly awaited stage production ever, will leap onto the Fabulous Fox Theatre stage from Wednesday, June 1 to Sunday, June 19. Find out how to get tickets and more.

 Disney’s The Lion King continues to reign across North America with a record-breaking, sold-out premiere engagement in Greensboro. The award-winning musical broke two records at the venue during the week ending March 6, 2022: highest-grossing week with a gross of $1,958,506 and the highest one-week attendance, with 23,040 guests seeing the show.

Disney's The Lion King, a groundbreaking musical and the third longest-running musical on Broadway, is in the middle of its nearly month-long reign at the Detroit Opera House, where it will stay until February 20th.

Disney's The Lion King is coming back to the Detroit Opera House for nearly a month-long run from January 27th through February 20th. BWW Detroit interviewed Zazu actor Jürgen Hooper ahead of their stint in Detroit. Read our interview here!

Tickets for the long-awaited return engagement of Disney’s The Lion King will go on sale to the public on Monday, February 7 at 10:00 a.m. St. Louis’s most eagerly awaited return will once again leap onto the Fabulous Fox Theatre stage on Wednesday, June 1 for a limited engagement of 3 weeks through Sunday, June 19.

The Lion King has extended performance cancelations at The Buell Theatre in Denver for Tuesday, December 28 at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday, December 29 at 7:30 p.m.   

The Lion King, Detroit's most eagerly awaited stage production ever will leap onto the Detroit Opera House stage from January 27 - February 20, 2022.

Disney’s The Lion King North American tour released two new production photos today of Darian Sanders (Simba) and Kayla Cyphers (Nala). 

The cast includes Spencer Plachy as 'Scar,' Gerald Ramsey as 'Mufasa,' Gugwana Dlamini as 'Rafiki,' Nick Cordileone as 'Timon,' Jürgen Hooper as 'Zazu,' Ben Lipitz as 'Pumbaa,' Darian Sanders as 'Simba,' Kayla Cyphers as 'Nala,' Keith Bennett as 'Banzai,' Martina Sykes as 'Shenzi' and Robbie Swift as 'Ed.' Jaylen Lyndon Hunter alternates the role of 'Young Simba', along with Charlie Kahler.

Disney Theatrical Productions and Broadway In Detroit announced today that tickets for the long-awaited return engagement of Disney’s The Lion King will go on sale to the public on Friday, October 22, 2021.

The Lion King North American touring company reunited in Cleveland on September 7, for the first time since the shutdown, to begin rehearsals for the tour’s relaunch. The tour is resuming performances at the KeyBank State Theatre for a two-week return engagement beginning Friday, October 1 and playing through Friday, October 15, 2021

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“beyond king tut: the immersive experience” produced in partnership with the national geographic society commemorates 100th anniversary of tomb discovery.

Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience  a new exhibition developed in partnership with the National Geographic Society, commemorates the 100th anniversary of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time. Beyond King Tut will mark its world premiere with the start of its North American tour in spring 2022.

The world premiere showings include a special installation at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C. (June 2022-February 2023) and SoWa Power Station in Boston (July 8-September 18). Waitlist registration for priority access to tickets starts today at www.beyondkingtut.com .

Beyond King Tut will take visitors on a time-traveling journey flooded with sight, sound and intrigue through the world of King Tut—the boy who reigned as pharaoh of Egypt more than 3,000 years ago—and the discovery of his tomb and treasures in 1922. The discovery of the intact tomb of King Tut captured the imagination of the world, and the mysteries surrounding the tomb still resonate today. Drawing from the storied archives of the National Geographic Society, the exhibition combines the power of cinematic storytelling and soaring imagery made possible with state-of-the-art projection mapping to invite visitors into the golden king’s world like never before.

“ Beyond King Tut will be a must-see for anyone interested in Egypt and the history of King Tut,” said Kathryn Keane, vice president of public programming for the National Geographic Society. “New technologies are making it possible to fully immerse people like never before in important stories from our past, allowing us to develop connections and understand history’s influence on our present and future generations.”

Beyond King Tut is produced by Paquin Entertainment Group and Immersive Experiences. Paquin Entertainment Group’s exhibition portfolio includes the acclaimed Beyond Van Gogh and Beyond Monet exhibitions that have attracted more than 3 million visitors around the world.

The North American debut of the award-winning virtual reality experience “Tutankhamun: Enter the Tomb” will be presented alongside Beyond King Tut in select venues, including SoWa Power Station, as an optional add-on experience. Created by immersive cinematic storytelling company CityLights and voiced by lauded English actor Hugh Bonneville, the groundbreaking experience whisks guests through a photorealistic version of King Tut’s tomb and all its treasures, just as archeologist Howard Carter and his financier Lord Carnarvon found it when they first peered inside in 1922.

In addition to the premiere of Beyond King Tut , National Geographic is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb in November 2022 with content including a documentary and a National Geographic magazine feature.

Prospective Beyond King Tut guests can sign up for tour date announcements and waitlist registration for priority access to tickets at http://www.beyondkingtut.com/ .

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UPDATE: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Announce 2023 U.S. Residency Tour [Video]

Eclectic Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced a 2023 North American “residency tour” featuring multi-night runs in several cities. A press release announcing the tour notes that these will be the band’s only U.S. performances in 2023.

The newly announced run of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard U.S. tour dates will begin with a run of shows at Pelham, TN’s The Caverns  featuring two nights in the venue’s famed underground space (June 1st, 2nd) and one at the complex’s larger, above-ground The Caverns Amphitheater (June 3rd).

[UPDATE 11/21/22]: Following the rapid sell-out of the three initially announced King Gizzard dates at The Caverns, the band has added a fourth show in Pelham, TN set to take place at The Caverns Amphitheater on June 4th. Tickets for the newly added 6/4 date at The Caverns Amphitheater go on sale on Monday, November 21st at 12:00 p.m. CT. For ticketing information, head here .

From there, King Giz will return to Morrison, CO’s  Red Rocks Amphitheatre  for a three-show run. Unlike the band’s Red Rocks stint in 2022, which featured three “marathon” concerts spread over three nights, the 2023 Red Rocks run will feature a regular-length show on Wednesday, June 7th followed by two separately ticketed shows (early and late) on Thursday, June 8th.

Next, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s 2023 residency tour will move to Chicago, IL for three consecutive nights at the recently opened  The Salt Shed on June 11th, 12th, and 13th. The band will then head west that weekend for a three-night run at Carnation, WA’s  Carnation Farms (6/16, 6/17, 6/18). Finally, the tour will wrap up on Wednesday, June 21st with a three-hour “marathon set” at the historic Hollywood Bowl in Los Angels, CA.

“USA, we love you,” the band said in a tour announcement post on social media. “So much so we’re coming back as soon as we can. We all waited so long for our last lap around the country it feels like a such a wild and exciting privilege to be coming back so soon. We like to keep things interesting, different, fun and unexpected for us but also for you, our fans. So we’ve hand picked some really unique venues around the country to camp out in for a few nights. Set up shop and really get to know the place. Yep, it’s a RESIDENCY tour. Rocks, Farms, Caves and Salt Sheds. Sounds like an album title? Maybe one day.”

In addition to revealing their 2o23 U.S. tour plans, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced a number of theatrical screenings of their 2020 live concert film, Chunky Schrapnel . The feature-length film, directed by John Angus Stewart and distributed to cinemas via Abramorama , brings audiences onto the stages of the band’s 2019 U.K. and Europe tour. Screenings will predominantly take place one night only on December 7th. A full list of cities and dates can be found here .

For full ticketing details regarding the 2023 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard North American residency tour, visit the band’s website .

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are coming off of a banner year in 2022. The band released five new studio albums ( Omnium Gatherum , Laminated Denim ,  Made In Timeland , Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava , and Changes ) as well as a guest-heavy remix LP,  Butterfly 3001 . The band also mounted a lengthy U.S. tour including notable stops at Red Rocks, New York’s  Forest Hills Stadium , and more.

Get a taste of what’s to come on King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s 2023 U.S. residency tour with the recently released live KEXP studio session below. Scroll down to check out a full list of upcoming King Giz tour dates.

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Wed. Jan. 4 – Auckland, NZ @ The Matakana Country Park Fri. Jan. 6 – New Plymouth, NZ @ Bowl of Brooklands Thu. Mar. 2 – Paris, FR @ Zenith Fri. Mar. 3 – Amsterdam, NL @ Gashoulder – SOLD OUT Sat. Mar. 4 – Tilburg, NE @ 013 – SOLD OUT Mon. Mar. 6 – Malmo, SE @ Plan B – SOLD OUT Tue. Mar. 7 – Stockholm, SE @ Munchenbryggeriet – SOLD OUT Wed. Mar. 8 – Oslo, NE @ Sentrum Scene Thu. Mar. 9 – Copenhagen, DK @ Den Gra Hal Sat. Mar. 11 – Warsaw, PL @ Progesja – SOLD OUT Sun. Mar. 12 – Prague, CZ @ Lucerna Velky Sal Mon. Mar. 13 – Vienna, AT @ Gasometer Wed. Mar. 15 – Milan, IT @ Alcatraz Thu. Mar. 16 – Zurich, CH @ X-Tra Fri. Mar. 17 – Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks Sat. Mar. 18 – Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof Mon. Mar. 20 – Brussels, DE @ Cirque Royale – SOLD OUT Wed. Mar. 22 – London,UK @ Brixton Academy Thu. Mar. 23 – London, UK @ Brixton Academy Thu. Mar. 30 – Sydney, AUS @ Big Top Luna Park Thu. Apr. 6 – Byron Bay, AUS @ Tivoli Fri. Apr. 7 – Byron Bay, AUS @ Byron Bay Bluesfest Thu. June 1 – Grundy County, TN @ The Caverns Underground Fri. June 2 – Grundy County, TN @ The Caverns Underground Sat. June 3 – Grundy County, TN @ The Caverns Amphitheater Wed. June 7 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre Thu. June 8 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre – EARLY SHOW Thu. June 8 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre – LATE SHOW Sun. June 11 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed Mon. June 12 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed Tue. June 13 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed Fri. June 16 – Carnation, WA @ Carnation Farms Sat. June 17 – Carnation, WA @ Carnation Farms Sun. June 18 – Carnation, WA @ Carnation Farms Wed. June 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Hollywood Bowl – 3 HOUR MARATHON SET

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King Krule Announces 2023 Tour

By Madison Bloom

King Krule has announced a string of tour dates that will follow the release of his next album, Space Heavy , which arrives June 9 via Matador . Archy Marshall and his band will get started in Minneapolis on Friday, July 21, stopping over at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago the following day. Then, King Krule will wind through Detroit, Montreal, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Nashville, Denver, Seattle, and more, before playing his final U.S. gig in Los Angeles on September 25. King Krule will also play venues in the United Kingdom and Europe in October and November. Find the full itinerary below.

Space Heavy is King Krule’s follow-up to 2020’s Man Alive! Marshall wrote the album during periods in London and Liverpool between 2020 to 2022. He was largely inspired by the notion of “the space between” while conceptualizing his new batch of songs, which he recorded with producer Dilip Harris, saxophonist Ignacio Salvadores, drummer George Bass, bassist James Wilson, and guitarist Jack Towell.

Upon announcing Space Heavy last month, Marshall shared lead single “Seaforth,” along with with a music video directed by Jocelyn Anquetil . A couple of happy dogs co-starred with the musician in the clip.

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07-21 Minneapolis, MN - First Ave 07-22 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival 07-23 Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theatre 07-25 Toronto, Ontario - History 07-26 Montreal, Quebec - Corona Theatre 07-28 Boston, MA - House of Blues 07-29 Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club 07-30 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 08-01 Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre 09-08 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse 09-09 Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl 09-11 Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall 09-12 Austin, TX - Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater 09-13 Dallas, TX - House of Blues 09-15 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre 09-16 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot 09-18 Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre 09-19 Vancouver British Columbia - Vogue Theatre 09-20 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theater 09-23 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater 09-25 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium 10-04 Dublin, Ireland - 3 Olympia 10-06 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland 10-07 Manchester, England - Academy 10-09 London, England - Eventim Apollo 10-16 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso 10-18 Antwerp, Belgium - De Roma 10-19 Brussels, Belgium - AB 10-21 Cologne, Germany - Carlswerk Victoria 10-23 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega 10-26 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle 10-27 Prague, Czech Republic - Forum Karlin 10-28 Vienna, Austria - Simm City 10-30 Budapest, Hungary - Akvarium Klub 10-31 Ljubljana, Slovenia - Kino Siska 11-01 Zagreb, Croatia - Tvornica Kultur 11-03 Lausanne, Switzerland - Les Docks 11-04 Turin, Italy - Club to Club Festival 11-06 Paris, France - Trianon

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The Return of the King: The Tut Tour Comes Back to the States

By Jason Sheftell

In 1979 King Tut, an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh who ascended to the throne at age 9 and died before he was 20, captured the hearts and minds of America. Like a Rolling Stones concert tour, the traveling museum exhibit of King Tut drew huge crowds and a cult following. King Tut was everywhere. Comedian Steve Martin even wrote a song dedicated to the Boy King that rose to the top of the pop charts.

Now, he's back. A traveling exhibit titled "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" is scheduled to stop in four American cities over the next 27 months. Having opened on June 16 in Los Angeles, the exhibit will hit venues in Ft. Lauderdale, Chicago and Philadelphia.

For information on the traveling show, go to www.kingtut.org . They have detailed schedules, ticket information and an education section detailing the history of King Tut's life, death and afterlife, a custom inherent to the mummification process of the ancient Egyptians. The reason for the exhibit and the return of King Tut is quite simple -- the Egyptians need additional financing to preserve and fund the upkeep of the their great ancient national treasures such as the Pyramids, Sphinx and Temple of Luxur. Egyptian officials believe their great sites are decaying and face ruin within 100 years if not properly cared for and preserved.

With over 100 artifacts dating as far back as 3,500 years from both King Tutankhamun's tomb and the Valley of the Kings, burial site of most of Egypt's great Pharaohs, this particular exhibit includes the gold crown placed upon the Tut's mummified body that he may have worn in life and a gold-tiled coffin that contained the young king's internal organs. When King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922, it was one of the world's most important archaeological finds ever. The great exhibit with all its artifacts takes you back in time to the world of the Pharaohs and the culture of the Nile. It's an especially incredible show for kids who become enchanted by the color of the exhibit and Tut's personal history. After all, what nine year old can't relate to a king or queen his own age?

Ticket prices vary slightly per city. Expect to pay $30 per adult on weekends or $27 during the week. For children 6 to 17, tickets will cost $14 or $15 vary per city every day. Senior tickets cost $22 during the week or $27 on a Saturday or Sunday. Tickets are available for the first two legs of the exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that lasts from June 16 to November 15, 2005 and for the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale that goes from December 15, 2005 to April 23, 2006. You can sign up to be notified when tickets officially go on sale for the final two cities at www.kingtut.org/sweepstakes.htm . Tickets are expected to go on sale January 24, 2006 for the Chicago leg of the tour showing at The Field Museum from May 26, 2006 to January 24, 2007. For the show in Philadelphia at the Franklin Institute from February 3 to September 7, 2007, tickets should go on sale sometime in 2006 as well. You'll find detailed information on each of the venues including telephone numbers, addresses and links to the museums' individual sites at www.kingtut.org/venues.htm . (The exhibit is skipping the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York because of a disagreement between museum officials and the Egyptian curators over an Egyptian demand to charge a separate price for entrance into the Tut exhibit, a request in direct contradiction to the Met's pay-one-price policy.)

Official planning for this exhibit even included securing special hotel deals in each of the host cities. In Los Angeles, seven hotels have deals related to the King Tut exhibit ( www.kingtut.org/lahotels.htm ). The Wilshire Grand (tel. 888/773-2888 ; www.wilshiregrand.com ) has a one-night double occupancy rate that includes two tickets to the exhibit, Executive Level accommodations, free parking and continental breakfast in the Executive Lounge for $169 per night. Additional nights at the hotel cost only $119. The Fort Lauderdale exhibit struck a deal with Marriott where Ft. Lauderdale Marriott Hotels & Resorts the official hotel sponsor for the event. Starting at $149 per night with double occupancy, you get two VIP tickets to the exhibit that mean front of line access, two audio tours, an official King Tut catalogue and 10 percent off the museum gift shop. See www.marriottse.com/offers/kingtut or call 800/583-0179 for details. There are six Marriott's in the Ft. Lauderdale vicinity all of which offer the above deal ranging in price from $149 to $199 per night depending on hotel amenities, location and resort type. Keep checking back at the King Tut website or sign up for newsletter to see hotel deals as they come available for the Chicago and Philadelphia exhibits.

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• Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is On Tour Now - New Dates!

The inspiring true story of Carole King’s journey from teenage songwriter to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is on tour. 

Before she was hit-maker Carole King — she was Carole Klein, a spunky, young songwriter from Brooklyn with a unique voice. From the chart-topping hits she wrote for the biggest acts in music to her own life-changing, trailblazing success with Tapestry , Beautiful: The Carole King Musical takes you back to where it all began — and takes you on the ride of a lifetime. Plan to see the show! An updated list of cities and theaters is below.

• "There's No Me Without You" Carole King Duet with Glen Campbell Available Now
• CAROLE KING’S HOME AGAIN: LIVE IN CENTRAL PARK Concert Out May 26 on Sony/Legacy/Ode
• New Documentary Carole King Home Again: Live in Central Park Playing in Theaters
• Home Again: Live In Central Park Concert Documentary to be Released Feb 9 via The CODA Collection.
• Lead Role in Carole King Bio Pic Announced
• Carole King Testifies Before U.S. House Environment Subcommittee Regarding Reducing Catastrophic WildFires
• Louise Goffin Launches Current and Compelling Podcast Titled Song Chronicles
• Carole King and James Taylor Documentary 'Just Call Out My Name' Coming to HBO Max
• "Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)" Featured in 'RESPECT' Top Contender for the 2022 Oscar for Best Original Song
• Rare Bonus Tracks Available Now On 'A Christmas Carole' - 10th Anniversary for 'A Holiday Carole'
• "James Taylor in Concert" Featuring Carole King, Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel, Jo Mama - BBC 1971
• Congratulations to all 2022 GRAMMYs Nominees!
• HBO Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 2021 Airs Nov. 20 - Watch the Tease
• 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Carole King Performance & Ceremony info & UPDATE w/Sherry Goffin Kondor.
• Variety Features Jennifer Hudson and Carole King Interview
• Rolling Stone Features Carole King RRHOF 2021 Induction as Performer
• S.1276 Introduced April 21, 2021 by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (NREPA)
• Carole King Joined a Virtual Conversation Re:NREPA on April 21, 6pm
• Carole King is a Nominee for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2021
• MusiCares Music on a Mission Virtual Concert March 12, 2021
• Legacy Recordings Celebrates 'Tapestry's 50th Anniversary
• Carole King BBC In Concert Watch Party on Monday, February 8, 12pm ET
• Talking About 'Tapestry': Musicians Discuss the Influence of Carole King's Masterpiece
• Carole King - "Out in the Cold" Digital Only Release of Single
• 'Tapestry' at 50: How Carole King 'Bet On Herself' To Record a Singer-Songwriter Classic
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• This Week in September 1971...
• Carole King Joins the Virtual Gala 'A Hole in the Wall Celebration of Hope and Healing'
• Carole King Live at BST Hyde Park
• Goffin & King Foundation - Iso Booth Quarantine Cover Contest
• The "Beautiful" UK Tour Company Performs Virtual Rendition of "I Feel the Earth Move"
• Carole King Joins the Line-up of Performers for ALL TOGETHER NOW Online Concert for City of Los Angeles
• Worldwide Cast and Musicians From The Musical 'Beautiful' Collaborate From Their Homes to Perform "You've Got A Friend"
• 'Tapestry' Was Released 49 Years Ago, February 10, 1971
• Carole King Presents the AMA Artist of the Decade Award to Taylor Swift
• Beautiful - The Carole King Musical Takes It's Final Bow On Broadway
• Carole King Urges Climate Action to Support NREPA
• Carole King Performs at Global Citizen Festival in NYC 9.28.2019 - UPDATE
• Carole King Appeared on 'Morning Joe', Friday, 9/27/19
• Carole King Appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thurs. 9/26/19
• Goldmine Magazine Features 'Carole King - Live at Montreux 1973' Sept 2019 Issue
• Carole King - Live at Montreux 1973 Release Available Now
• Vanessa Carlton Makes Her Broadway Debut as Carole King in "Beautiful-UPDATE
• "Beautiful" UK Tour in 2020!
• Carole King Urges Lawmakers to Pass NREPA
• A Landscape Lewis and Clark Would Recognize Is Now Under Threat
• New Expansive, Intimate Interview with Carole King on The Great Song Adventure podcast, premieres February 8, 2019
• "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" Celebrates 5 years on Broadway
• Carole King's Midterm Dream is "One (2018)", New Video From Tapestry Studio
• Broadway Celebrates 2000 Performances of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical"
• Elvis Costello, Carole King and a Song 20 Years in the Making
• 'America's Got Talent' Treated to a Taste of Broadway's Best with a Performance from the Cast of "Beautiful"
• Carole King Surprises Melissa Benoist and Cast of "Beautiful"
• Abby Mueller Returns to "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical"
• Two Helpmann Awards For "Beautiful" in Sydney, Australia
• July Anniversary of Carole King's Historic Concert in Hyde Park
• Smooth Radio Features Story Behind Hit Song "You've Got A Friend"
• Melissa Benoist Joins the Cast of 'Beautiful: The Carole King Musical'
• 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow' by The Shirelles Highlighted in The New Yorker
• Carole King's 'Tapestry' at Top of NPR's First-Ever Readers' Poll 'Turning The Tables'
• Beautiful - The Carole King Musical Celebrates Facebook #FriendsDay With Joyful Mashup
• Carole King Tapestry: Live in Hyde Park Available Now on CD/DVD/Blu-Ray!
• Carole King Tapestry: Live in Hyde Park on PBS!
• Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Opens in Australia Sept. 2017
• Carole King: Tapestry - Captured Live in Hyde Park Showed Exclusively in the U.S. - CD/DVD Pre-Order Now!
• Carole King Joins The People's Climate March
• Carole King In Conversation with BBC's Michael Ball
• Carole King Performs At Buckingham Palace For The Outward Bound Trust
• Broadway Welcomes Abby Mueller and Evan Todd to cast of "Beautiful"
• Inspired by the Woman's March, Carole King Re-Releases "One Small Voice"
• Carole King Joins Millions in Women's March
• Gilmore Girls: Carole King Hits a High Note With Her Cameo Appearance
• Carole King's "Tapestry" - Live at Hyde Park Aired Sat. Oct. 29th on SkyArts in the UK
• "Beautiful" is Heading Down Under
• Carole King Performed "Tapestry" in Hyde Park 3 July, 2016-UPDATE-SOLD OUT
• Carole King, Lin Manuel-Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Idina Menzel and 60 More Record Single to Benefit Broadway For Orlando
• NREPA Bill Introduced in the Senate For the First Time
• Carole King Presents 2016 Tony Award For Best Original Score To Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda
• American Masters Presents "Carole King: Natural Woman" on PBS - Now on DVD/Blu-ray
• 45th Anniversary of Tapestry Release
• Rolling Stone Features Exclusive Clip From American Masters - 'Carole King: Natural Woman'
• Carole King Featured on NPR's Fresh Air
• Carole King, George Lucas, Rita Moreno, Seiji Ozawa, Cicely Tyson Receive 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors Dec. 29, 2015
• Carole King Interview on CBS 'This Morning'
• Carole King Appears on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" Friday, Dec. 4th
• Carole King Featured in Billboard Magazine
• Carole King Joins "Morning Joe" To Discuss National Tour of 'Beautiful'
• Carole King, Chilina Kennedy and Abby Mueller Interview Wednesday, Sept. 9th on TODAY
• Carole King Appears in TODAY's Toyota Concert Series, Announces National Tour of BEAUTIFUL!
• A MusiCares® Tribute to Carole King Release on Blu-Ray/DVD June 23, 2015
• Abby Mueller Joins "Beautiful" Cast In Title Role As Carole King
• Carole King Performs at SeriousFun Children's Network Fundraiser
• Autism Speaks Light It Up Blue Campaign April 2
• Sony To Bring "Beautiful" To the Big Screen
• London's "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" Nominated for 8 Olivier Awards
• Sony U.K. Releases A Beautiful Collection
• Chilina Kennedy and Jessica Keenan Wynn Join "Beautiful" Cast March 7, 2015 on Broadway
• Carole King Performs at Paul Newman's SeriousFun Children's Network Fundraising Gala
• Broadway's "Beautiful" Opens in London Feb. 24 To Rave Reviews.
• "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" Original Cast Recording Wins Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album
• Finding Your Roots, Episode 7, Includes Ancestry of Carole King
• Carole King Appears on "The Meredith Vieira Show"
• 'Beautiful' Cast Recording Debuts at No.1 on Billboard Top Broadway Albums Chart
• 'Beautiful: The Carole King Musical' Wins Two 2014 Tony Awards
• Legendary Songwriter Gerry Goffin February 11, 1939 - June 19, 2014
• 'Beautiful' Receives the Eighth Annual "ACCA" Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus
• 'Beautiful: The Carole King Musical' Receives Seven 2014 Tony Award Nominations - Carole Appeared At Live Broadcast Sunday, June 8
• 'You've Got A Friend - The Carole King Story' Airs on BBC Four
• Carole King Performs at Power of Love Fundraiser for Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center
• Carole King Sees "Beautiful"
• Beautiful: Broadway Show Opens 1/12/2014.
• Carole King Honored As MusiCares Person Of The Year On Jan. 24, 2014
• Sara Bareilles and Carole King Perform Together at 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards®
• Carole King 'Beautiful' Sweepstakes
• Sony Legacy Recordings Celebrates Carole King as 'Artist of the Month': Hosts Contest
• A Special Opening Night Message from Goffin & King and Mann & Weil
• Carole King Performs at National Vigil for Victims of Gun Violence
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• New Single Available "I Believe In Loving You"
• Carole King Performed At Fundraiser In Boston To Benefit One Fund.
• The President and First Lady Host Concert Honoring Carole King: Recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
• Carole King Speaks Up For America's Wild Horses on Today Show
• Carole King Receives Honorary Doctorate Degree From Berklee College of Music
• 28th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony Airing May 18 at 9pm ET/PT on HBO
• "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" is Broadway Bound - Fall Tryout Run in San Francisco
• Reps. Maloney, Grijalva, & Markey introduce the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) H.R.1187
• Pandora Radio Interviews Carole King as part of their Turning Points Series
• Carole King Interview Airs on NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show"
• Carole's Memoir A Natural Woman Available In Paperback February 12
• Carole King Awarded GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Honor
• The Australian Tour Merchandise Store is Officially Open!
• Natural Woman Tour Success in Australia and New Zealand
• 'A Holiday Carole' Grammy Nomination
• Carole King honored with star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Carole on 60 Minutes Australia
• Natural Woman Tour: More Shows Announced
• A Celebration of Carole King and Her Music benefits The Painted Turtle Camp
• Playlist: The Very Best of Carole King Released by Sony Legacy
• Natural Women, Natural Leaders Panel Discussion at Southern New Hampshire University
• Carole King Appeared on 'Joy Behar: Say Anything!'
• Help Save America's Wild Horses
• Carole King Performed on MDA 'Show of Strength' Labor Day Weekend
• Carole Invited to Share a Meal with Fire Crews
• Louise Goffin Releases "Indiglo" Music Video
• CURE 2012 Chicago Benefit Features Carole King
• Carole King Named BMI Icon at 60th Annual BMI Pop Awards
• 'The Legendary Demos' Released by Carole King April 24
• Carole King Presenter for Don Kirshner at 27th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
• Carole King's Memoir, 'A Natural Woman', is Published April 10, 2012
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King & Country ‘Unsung Hero' tour 2024: Presale, dates, venues, & all you need to know

T he For King & Country duo of Joel and Luke Smallbone are going on a national outing this fall for the Unsung Hero Tour 2024. The Grammy-winning duo shared the news on X (formerly Twitter) this Wednesday as they announced the North American tour, set to begin on September 19.

Joel and Luke Smallbone's fall tour comes on the head of their biopic film, Unsung Hero , released last month on April 26. Though the duo has yet to give a confirmation, fans hope that the Unsung Hero Tour 2024 also supports the new film.

Tickets for the Unsung Hero Tour 2024 are going on an artist presale starting next week on May 7. The presale begins at 10:00 am EDT and can be taken benefit of by visiting the For King & Country website - forkingandcountry.com. Additional presales will also begin at venues and Ticketmaster starting on May 7, followed by a member-exclusive Spotify presale.

Fans can get VIP packages for the For King & Country tour on May 6, followed by the presale of the Platinum tickets on the next day.

The general public will get access to the tickets next week after they go on open sale starting at 10:00 am EDT on May 10. The official platinum and VIP packages for the tour will also be on open sale for over a month starting on May 10.

Everything to know about For King & Country ‘Unsung Hero' tour 2024

The For King and Country duo is headlining an outing this year as they take up stages across North America for the Unsung Hero Tour 2024. The upcoming tour will begin on September 19 with the Christian music icons performing at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.

The Grammy-winning group will then tour through North America while performing at Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum, Grand Rapids' Enterprise Center, Rapid City's Summit Arena, and Duluth's DECC Arena, among others. The duo will also take over the national stages in cities including - Sioux Falls, Des Moines, Kansas City, Hollywood, Tampa, Louisville, and Pittsburgh.

The Smallbones will travel to Ohio on October 18 and perform at Toledo's Huntington Center, followed by consecutive shows at Charlotte's Spectrum Center, Roanoke's Berglund Center, and the EagleBank Arena in Fairfax. The duo's outing in November will include shows at Greenville's Bon Secours Wellness Arena, Duluth's Gas South Arena, Little Rocks' Simmons Bank Arena, and the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City.

The Unsung Hero Tour 2024 will be officially wrapped up on November 10 when Joel and Luke Smallbone take the stage at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. A full setlist for the Unsung Hero Tour 2024 is yet to be revealed, but the For King & Country duo announced that they will be performing on all fan favorites .

The North American dates and venues where For King & Country will perform during the Unsung Hero tour are:

• September 19 - Ford Center, Evansville, Indiana
• September 20 - Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• September 21 - Enterprise Center, St. Louis, Missouri
• September 22 - Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Michigan
• September 27 - CHI Health Center, Omaha, Nebraska
• September 28 - Summit Arena, Rapid City, South Dakota
• September 29 - Sunset Amphitheater, Colorado Springs
• October 3 - DECC Arena, Duluth, Minnesota
• October 4 - Denny Sanford PREMIER Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
• October 5 - Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa
• October 6 - T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, Missouri
• October 10 - Hard Rock Live, Hollywood, Florida
• October 11 - Amalie Arena, Tampa, Florida
• October 12 - The BJCC's Legacy Arena, Birmingham, Alabama
• October 13 - KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Kentucky
• October 17 - PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• October 18 - Huntington Center, Toledo, Ohio
• October 19 - Truist Arena, Highland Heights, Kentucky
• October 20 - Spectrum Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
• October 24 - Berglund Center, Roanoke, Virginia
• October 25 - GIANT Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
• October 26 - Agganis Arena, Boston, Massachusettes
• October 27 - EagleBank Arena, Fairfax, Virginia
• November 2 - Bon Secours Wellness Arena, Greenville, South Carolina
• November 3 - Gas South Arena, Duluth, Georgia
• November 7 - Simmons Bank Arena, Little Rock, Arkansas
• November 8 - H-E-B Center, Cedar Park, Texas
• November 9 - Paycom Center, Oklahoma City
• November 10 - American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas

For King & Country's biopic, the Unsung Hero joined theatres last month, on April 26. The movie is based around the Smallbone family and follows them on their journey towards finding a brighter future through music. As of the writing, the biopic is going strong with an IMDB rating of 7.9 and a 99% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

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King Tut: A Classic Blockbuster Museum Exhibition That Began as a Diplomatic Gesture

When the boy-king was the hottest ticket in town.

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President Richard Nixon hung on to the brass rail of a Victorian parlor car, leaning out the window and waving to cheering crowds. The train huffed from Cairo to Alexandria, passing cotton fields, orange groves, and water buffalo. The date was June 13, 1974, and back in Washington, D.C., the House Judiciary Committee waited impatiently for the White House to turn over tapes of conversations recorded in Nixon’s office. The committee wanted to know what Nixon knew about the Watergate burglary.

People line the edge of the National Mall, waiting to see “Treasures of Tutankhamun” at the National Gallery in February 1977.

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On the train next to Nixon stood Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt, with whom he was about to sign a bilateral agreement. Negotiated by Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s secretary of state, it represented a step forward in forging a new partnership between the two countries after the termination of diplomatic relations seven years earlier. Tucked into the agreement was a clause devoted to culture. The United States would help the Egyptians reconstruct Cairo’s opera house, while Egypt would send the “Treasures of Tutankh­amun” to the United States.

After an explosive few years in the Middle East, Richard Nixon wanted the American people to associate Egypt with something more than oil and war. There are few things that survive from the ancient world more compelling or captivating than artifacts of Tutankhamun, the boy-king who ruled Egypt thirty-three centuries ago. By sending his treasures on tour across the United States, Nixon and Kissinger hoped to shape public perceptions about the United States’ newest ally. What they got was a cultural juggernaut.

From November 1976 to April 1979, “Treasures of Tutankhamun” traveled to six American cities with the help of NEH grants. As millions of people lined up for hours to see the show, museums became the hottest tickets in town, helping usher in the era of the blockbuster museum exhibition.

The discovery that captivated the world 

Tutankhamun, more commonly known as King Tut, has played an outsized role in our cultural imagination ever since archaeologist Howard Carter and his patron, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, opened his tomb in November 1922.

For years, Carter had been digging in the Valley of the Kings, the ancient burial site of Egypt’s pharaohs, in search of Tut. Almost ready to call it quits, Carnarvon agreed to support Carter for one last season. Carter decided to focus his efforts on a small plot of land lodged between the tombs of Ramesses II, Merneptah, and Ramesses VI. Huts that might have belonged to the workers who built the tomb of Ramesses VI had been discovered there. From what Carter knew about Egyptian burial practices, it seemed unlikely that workers would have been allowed to camp on a pharaoh’s tomb, but it was the only place left to search.

On the second day of the dig, Carter’s workmen discovered a layer of flint chips, which often signified the presence of a tomb. On the morning of day four, they found the beginning of a staircase. It dead-ended at a door bearing the seals of the royal necropolis. Marshalling every ounce of self-control he possessed, Carter ordered his workers to refill the staircase with rubble, then posted guards. A pharaoh might lie behind the door, but finding out would have to wait until Carnarvon arrived from Britain.

After a series of ferries, trains, ships, and donkeys, Carnarvon reached the Valley of Kings on November 20. Workers removed the rubble on the following day. Seals belonging to Tutankhamun appeared, and holes had been cut into the door. Carter’s heart sank. Archaeologists had located more than thirty royal tombs since the nineteenth century—only to discover that grave robbers had looted all of them first. What if Tut’s tomb had also been ransacked? Beyond the door was a narrow passage twenty-five feet long. It too bore signs of tampering. As the workers cleared the rubble, another door appeared, also sealed and repaired.

On November 26, Carter drilled a hole in the door and peeked inside. “At first, I could see nothing, the hot air escaping the chamber causing the candle flame to flicker, but presently, as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold—everywhere the glint of gold,” he wrote in his account of the discovery.

Carter had found the antechamber to Tut’s tomb. Priceless artifacts lay jumbled all around: thrones, boxes, vases, chariots, statues, weapons, and more. Grave robbers most likely created the mess, as no pharaoh would have entered the afterlife amid such disarray.

Realizing he needed help, Carter contacted the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which had a team working in the valley. In particular, he wanted the services of photographer Harry Burton. “Only too delighted to assist in any possible way. Please call on Burton and any other member of our staff,” cabled A. M. Lythgoe, the Met’s curator of Egyptian art. As Carter excavated, Burton photographed his progress, providing a historic and intimate account of the process.

The throng of reporters who witnessed the opening of Tut’s tomb made the discovery front-page news and this once obscure pharaoh a celebrity. But the antechamber was only the beginning. Carter found three more rooms—annex, burial chamber, and treasury—stuffed full of golden treasures. It would take more than a decade to excavate Tut’s tomb, but Carnarvon did not live to see the results. In April 1923, the earl died of complications from an infected mosquito bite. His untimely death, along with the demise of other members of the expedition, inspired lurid tales of the “Curse of the Pharaoh.”

A good deal of mystery surrounded the man in the tomb. Tut reigned for nine (or ten) years during the Eighteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom, a period of imperial prosperity for Egypt. He ascended the throne at the age of nine, taking as his wife Ankhesenamun, his half-sister and the daughter of Nefertiti. The couple produced two daughters, both of whom were stillborn. Their fetuses were found in Tut’s tomb. The boy-king also possessed a clubbed left foot, which probably required him to use a cane.

His short life has led to ongoing speculation on the cause of his death. Some have claimed murder. Others believe he died following a chariot accident. The most recent findings suggest that a sour genetic cocktail, caused by intermarriage among Egyptian royalty, produced a sickly constitution, further compromised by malaria.

Political arrangements

Throughout the fall and winter of 1974 to 1975, the State Department negotiated with the Egyptians. It was decided the exhibition would start in 1976 and serve as a gift of friendship from Egypt to the United States during the bicentennial year.

The inclusion of a Tut show in the Nixon-Sadat agreement upended plans by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to organize its own Tut exhibition. J. Carter Brown, the gallery’s director, had already received approval from Sadat and the Egyptian cultural ministry to host Tut in 1977 or 1978. Now that Tut had become part of Nixon’s diplomatic strategy, Brown wasn’t sure what role the National Gallery could or should play. Nevertheless, he offered the National Gallery’s services as the organizing institution.

Thomas Hoving, director of the Met, also stepped into the fray. Hoving didn’t think much of Nixon’s use of Tut as a diplomatic tool, but he changed his tune after Kissinger buttonholed C. Douglas Dillon, the president of the Met’s board of trustees. From his conversation with Kissinger, Dillon believed the Met might lose access to federal grants if it didn’t take an active role in organizing the Tut exhibition. Hoving, who had a flair for the dramatic, later claimed that Kissinger threatened to have his taxes audited if he didn’t show more interest. Soon, Hoving was knee-deep in his own negotiations with the Egyptians.

Having both the National Gallery and the Met vying to organize the Tut show complicated negotiations in Cairo. The museums had competed for decades, but the rivalry between Brown and Hoving was personal. Neither liked to lose—and Brown had consistently outmaneuvered Hoving in securing international shows. After the National Gallery beat out the Met to host another détente art show, “The Archaeological Treasures of the People’s Republic of China,” Hoving vowed to never lose another big show to Brown.

In the spring of 1975, the State Department asked Brown if the National Gallery would step aside and let the Met coordinate the exhibition. Hoving’s yearlong charm offensive in Cairo had worked its magic. Brown agreed, provided the Tut show opened at the National Gallery, in keeping with its bylaws, and the Met wasn’t given credit as the initiator of the exhibition. Hoving stewed over the Met being denied the chance to open the exhibition—Brown had once again managed to outmaneuver him—but calmed down when he realized, as he wrote in his memoirs, “that being last was actually better than being first—visitors would flood to the final opportunity to see the show.”

In late October 1975, Kissinger and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy signed an agreement outlining the exhibition. “Treasures of Tutankhamun” would begin in Washington, D.C., travel to Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Seattle, and finish in New York. Each museum would host for four months, with two months in between for packing, travel, and installation. The Egyptians had final say on the selection of museums. By having the Tut show tour six cities, the Americans also trumped the Soviets—which is exactly what Nixon wanted. When “Treasures of Tutankh­amun” toured the Soviet Union, it visited only three: Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev.

After seeing a copy of the budget from the British Museum’s 1972 Tut show, Hoving and Brown began to fret. The insurance costs alone were staggering, not to mention the additional staff and logistical support required. Help appeared on the insurance front when Congress passed the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act, in December 1975, to help cover insurance costs related to hosting international exhibitions. “Treasures of Tutankhamun” became the first international art exhibition indemnified under the new law.

A grant from NEH to the Met in the summer of 1976 helped defray the upfront costs of organizing the show. The Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Charitable Trust and Exxon together matched the $250,000 provided by NEH.

Putting on a show 

With an official agreement in place, the Met and its partner museums had less than a year to design and assemble the exhibition. Christine Lilyquist, the Met’s curator of Egyptian art, chose the fifty-five objects for the exhibition in consultation with Hoving and the staff of the Cairo Museum. The Met also sent Lee Boltin to Egypt to take color photographs for a catalog, which I. E. S. Edwards, just retired as Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, agreed to write.

Hoving believed that once visitors moved past the “ooh” stage, the exhibition needed to provide context for the objects. William J. Williams, from the National Gallery’s education department, teamed up with David Silverman, an Egyptologist at the Field Museum, to write the wall text and to select images from the Met’s archive of Burton photographs.

When arrangements to transport Tut’s artifacts to the United States became hopelessly muddled, the U.S. Navy came to the rescue. The USS  Milwaukee  picked up the treasure in Alexandria, Egypt, and handed it off in Naples, Italy, to the USS  Sylvania , which delivered it to Norfolk, Virginia, in early September 1976.

Each museum received the same objects, wall text, and Burton photographs. They also agreed to organize the exhibition around the layout of the tomb. Beyond that, they were free to put their own spin on presentation. The National Gallery opted for a spare approach that showcased the gold artifacts against saturated walls, while the Met and the Seattle Art Museum both drew on Burton’s photos to recreate Tut’s tomb in the staging.

At each museum, the exhibition opened with a passage that mimicked the walk Carter took, back in the Valley of the Kings, from the steps to the second door. Visitors saw Tut first as a painted wood figure depicting him as the sun god: intense dark eyes, full lips, and an elongated skull. The figure, which would have allowed Tut to be continually reborn as the sun god, appears here because Carter discovered it beneath the rubble in the entranceway, most likely dropped by thieves as they scurried out.

From here, visitors progressed to the antechamber. A portable chest made of red and ebony woods is the only specimen of its kind that survives from ancient Egypt. A child’s chair, used by Tut when he was a boy, features gilded panels. The older Tut would have sat on the ceremonial chair, which has legs that turn into the paws of a lion and a carved back depicting Heh, the god of eternity. Sheet gold—imprinted with hieroglyphs, scenes of gods and kings, vultures, and flowers—covers the outside of a golden shrine. Archaeologists believe the shrine, which stands twenty inches tall, was intended to commemorate Tut’s coronation and sustain his dominion in the afterlife.

When it came time to open the burial chamber, Carter once again made a small hole and peered inside, using an electric light, before removing the entire door. “An astonishing sight its light revealed, for there, within a yard of the doorway, stretching as far as one could see and blocking the entrance to the chamber, stood what to all appearance was a solid wall of gold,” he wrote. When he removed the door, he discovered it wasn’t a wall, but a large shrine containing Tut’s sarcophagus.

The shrine and the sarcophagus didn’t travel to the United States, but items from the burial chamber, including some that adorned Tut’s mummified body, did. A lion carved of alabaster perched atop an unguent jar decorated with scenes of animals in combat. A three-and-a-half-inch solid gold rendering of a standing Tut, wearing a crown and kilt, topped a four-foot gold staff. Thirty brown and white ostrich feathers would have filled out a gold relief fan depicting an ostrich hunt, but insects had largely devoured them by the time Carter entered the tomb.

When Carter opened Tut’s sarcophagus, he found three coffins, one nestled inside the next. Tut’s mummified body lay in the final coffin, a funeral mask covering his head and upper body. The mask, which for all of its golden glitz makes it seem as if the boy-king still lives, has become synonymous with Tut. Obsidian and quartz create his soulful eyes, while lapis lazuli sketches his eyelashes and eyebrows. A fake beard appears below his full lips, its plaits crafted from the same deep-blue glass as the stripes in his headdress. As a vulture springs forth from Tut’s brow, signifying his dominion over Upper Egypt, a cobra puffs up beside it, proclaiming Tut’s sovereignty over Lower Egypt. A wide collar inlaid with green feldspar, lapis, and quartz covers his chest, swooping up to finish with a falcon’s head perched on each shoulder.

Beneath the strips of linen, Carter found a necklace with an intricate pendant portraying the blue-winged vulture goddess Nekhbet. Another vulture, this one in the form of an elaborate gold collar with glass feathers in shades of turquoise, lapis, and jasper, spread its protective wings across Tut’s mummified body.

From the burial chamber, visitors entered the treasury, which contained some of the liveliest pieces in the exhibition. A model boat measuring almost four feet and crafted of a single piece of wood helped Tut navigate the afterlife. A sculpture of a golden Tut portrays him standing on a raft made of papyrus (not unlike a surfboard), his arm hoisted and ready to throw a harpoon. Carter found Tut’s organs in an alabaster canopic chest inside a shrine guarded by four golden goddesses, each standing fifty-four inches high. The tight clinging robes of the goddess Selket give her an unexpected slinkiness.

Tut storms America  

When the exhibition opened at the National Gallery on November 17, 1976, the line wrapped around the three-block-long building. Tickets were distributed daily, on a first-come, first-served basis, leading people to regularly queue up at dawn. To bring visitors in from the unusually brisk winter, the gallery snaked the line through the entire building. Even so, once they reached the Fourth Street NW entrance, ticketholders still faced a four-hour wait before they could walk down the west marble staircase and descend into the tomb.

President Carter paid his respects ahead of a visit by Sadat to discuss Middle East peace negotiations. Standing with Sadat on the south grounds of the White House on April 4, 1977, Carter called seeing Tut “one of the most exciting experiences that I have had.”

Members of Congress paraded through, as did Hollywood royalty. Elizabeth Taylor, who had played the legendary Cleopatra, took in the exhibition with her husband, John Warner. So did Robert Redford, Marisa Berenson, Rex Harrison, William Holden, and Stefanie Powers. Andy Warhol and Richard Avedon also stalked Tut.

When the exhibition closed on March 15, more than 835,000 people had seen Tut—more than the population of Washington, D.C. Although a certified hit, the exhibition strained the gallery’s resources, requiring extra staff and security. The phones quit working halfway through. The gallery’s wood and marble floors suffered damage from the countless footsteps. By the end of each day, tumbleweed-sized dust bunnies lurked in corners.

Visitors spent $100,000 a week (in 1976 dollars) on souvenirs. Exiting the show, they stepped into a store stocked with three hundred Tut-themed items developed by the Met. There were coloring books, posters, and postcards, along with a Tut tote bag. The Tut-inspired jewelry collection ran to one hundred pieces. Hermès designed a limited-edition scarf, while Limoges produced a porcelain plate adorned with a falcon. There was also a $1,500 reproduction of the goddess Selket. The profits from the sale of merchandise were earmarked for the work of the Egyptian Organization of Antiquities, in particular renovations to the Cairo Museum.

From Washington, the exhibition moved to Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, where officials nervously welcomed the pharaoh and his belongings. The museum installed a new switchboard, arranged for more staff and volunteers, devised a different ticketing system, and upgraded its security system.

People began lining up at five in the morning on April 15, 1977. A group of friends arrived after an all-night bar crawl. One lay on the museum steps “mummified” from head to toe in toilet paper. By nine o’clock, two thousand people were waiting. When the Field Museum halted sales at 1:30 p.m., it had issued 8,547 numbered tickets. Visitors receiving the last tickets faced a seven-hour wait, but could roam the rest of the museum before getting to see Tut.

In mid June, the museum began flying a gold flag, emblazoned with a King Tut mask, on the north side of the building to signal the availability of tickets to motorists on Lake Shore Drive. When lowered to half staff, tickets were gone for the day. The flag usually went down before noon.

To complement the Tut show, the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute hosted “The Magic of Egyptian Art,” an exhibition supported by NEH. The show featured thirty-seven objects used to embalm Tut, along with examples of Egyptian writing, portraiture, and religious items. Before Tut’s arrival, the Oriental Institute also sponsored a free lecture series, supported by NEH as well, covering everything from mummification to the history of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

Not everyone in Chicago fell for Tut. Best-selling novelist Andrew Greeley lamented in the  Chicago Tribune  that in the rush to see Tut, people were ignoring masterpieces at the Art Institute. “I kind of feel that it’s tasteless to flock like sheep to see one set of artistic treasures and ignore all the others around.” The  Chicago Tribune , however, called Tut “a grand slam homer for culture.”

On Monday, August 15, when the last visitor, Keith Feiler, an English teacher from Elmhurst, passed through the exhibition, the staff enlisted his help to reenact an ancient Egyptian ritual. After high Egyptian officials placed all of the items into a pharaoh’s tomb, they swept away their footprints as they exited. Using a replica of an ancient Egyptian broom, Feiler helped sweep away the footprints of the 1.35 million people who had come before him.

From Chicago, Tut moved to New Orleans, running from September 15, 1977, to January 15, 1978. John Bullard, the director of the New Orleans Museum of Art, confessed to having “nightmares” before its arrival. The museum had never hosted anything to rival Tut. One month before the exhibition debuted, group tours sold out. The museum also stopped offering memberships, which included access to the exhibition, after subscriptions climbed from 3,000 to 12,000.

When Tut opened, the line meandered into City Park. The museum erected a striped canopy over the sidewalk to provide shade. Sixteen portable “Tutlets” were also stationed nearby. Lelong Drive, which leads to the museum’s front steps, was painted Nile blue and the Fairmont Hotel served Sphinxburgers, Queen Nefertiti’s salads, and bowls of Ramses’ gumbo. The museum also used a grant from NEH to offer a series of public programs about Tut and Egyptian history.

Bourbon Street couldn’t resist Tutmania either. While decked out like an Egyptian goddess, legendary burlesque dancer Chris Owens shimmied her way through a routine called “Pharaoh’s Favorite Toy.”

When the doors closed, 870,594 people had seen the show and spent $75 million in town. The museum saw Tut off with a jazz funeral.

The show traveled next to Los Angeles, where it ran from February 15 to June 15, 1978. Rates quickly spiked in all of the parking lots surrounding the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Ticket scalpers went to work. To manage the crowds, LACMA offered advance tickets at $2 apiece, selling out weeks before Tut’s arrival. By opening day, scalpers were selling tickets for $35 each.

LACMA built a Tut Shop on the plaza outside the museum. Frederick Cole, a labor contractor who witnessed the mania for Tut when he visited New Orleans, set up his own Tut Shoppe on Wilshire Boulevard adjacent to LACMA. “It just struck me that this is where it was at,” he told the  New York Times .

When it came time to pack up the exhibition, the museum gave the  Los Angeles Times  a front row seat to the painstaking process. No matter how gentle the curators were, the packing and display process enacted a toll on the objects. Curators from the Cairo Museum assessed items for damage and repairs were made before tucking the artifacts into special containers. Upon arrival in the next city, the process was repeated. “You learn the personality quirks of every piece—how strong they are, what they can take and what they can’t. It’s like being married—to fifty-five wives,” said Yale Kneeland, a conservator who supervised the packing process on behalf of the Met.

From Los Angeles, Tut traveled north, opening at Seattle Center’s Flag Pavilion on July 15, 1978. Built for the 1962 World’s Fair, the pavilion was renovated to host the exhibition with the help of a $1.2 million grant from the federal Economic Development Administration. The Seattle Art Museum, the sponsoring institution, lacked the necessary facilities.

Unlike in Los Angeles, which drew the majority of its visitors from the surrounding area, the show in Seattle relied heavily on tourists. Tickets for packaged tours could be purchased in advance. Otherwise, numbered tickets—$1 for an adult and 50 cents for students and seniors—were sold daily starting at 8:30 a.m. Monitors around the Seattle Center and downtown displayed wait times and ticket availability. On select nights, the museum offered private viewings to groups, such as the Junior League and Boeing, for a premium of $7.50 to $10 a head. Afterward, visitors rode to the top of the Space Needle and sipped Tut-inspired cocktails. By the time he departed for New York, 1.29 million people had viewed Tut’s burial mask in Seattle.

After organizing the exhibition and watching it enthrall audiences from afar, the Met finally had its moment. To handle the crowds—and keep people from freezing in line during the New York winter—the Met offered its free tickets through Ticketron, which charged a small service fee. They went on sale on a rainy September morning, and the line stretched along Fifth Avenue from 80th Street all the way down to 59th. Tickets were sold out in six days, but when one New Jersey agency advertised Tut tickets for $20 apiece in the  New York Times , it faced legal action. Scalping was illegal on both sides of the Hudson River.

During Tut’s run from December 15, 1978, to April 15, 1979, 633,500 out-of-town visitors descended on New York City, pumping $110 million into the local economy. When the Met closed its doors on the exhibition, 1.27 million people had gazed upon the objects the museum had helped Howard Carter excavate more than five decades earlier.

Tut, Tut, King Tut

As the Tut show at the Metropolitan wound down, Steve Martin lamented on  Saturday Night Live  about how “we have commercialized it with trinkets and toys, T-shirts and posters.” Dressed like a dime-store pharaoh and backed by a band attired in Egyptian garb and two gyrating dancers, Martin delivered what became an iconic routine: “(King Tut) (King Tut) / Now when he was a young man, / He never thought he’d see (King Tut) / People stand in line to see the boy king. (King Tut) / How’d you get so funky?” Halfway through the song, a saxophone player in head-to-toe Tut garb emerged from a sarcophagus at center stage. As he riffed on the song’s melody, Martin placed a blender before him as an offering.

While Nixon and Kissinger wanted the Tut show for diplomatic reasons, there was no denying, as Martin so deftly pointed out, that the exhibition made money for its host museums, savvy retailers, and local economies. The exhibition also captured the imagination of the American public, making Tut and his enchanting treasures part of the cultural zeitgeist of the 1970s.

Culture pundits tried to explain Tut’s appeal. Did the decadent golden treasures present an antidote to the cash-strapped 1970s? Were we just fascinated by mummies and Egyptian burial practices? A survey conducted by the National Gallery reported that 82 percent of attendees were drawn by “the beauty of the works of art” and 72 percent by “the age of the works of art.” Meanwhile, 62 percent professed an “interest in archaeology and ancient Egypt.” Only 15 percent claimed to have come because of the publicity.

“Treasures of Tutankhamun” brought several benefits with its oversized crowds. It forced museums to devise new ticketing systems for popular shows. The quality and success of the merchandising set a standard for future exhibitions. It also helped museums expand their membership rosters and interact with their communities in new ways. Whether or not blockbuster shows are good for museums remains an issue of contention. A 2001 Smithson­ian study noted that while they bring people into museums, blockbusters exhaust staff, drain resources that could be spent marketing the permanent collections, and create a “boom and bust” cycle of membership.

By allowing Tut’s artifacts to tour the United States, the Egyptian government raised $9 million to fund much needed renovations to the long-beleaguered Cairo Museum. Hoving, who resigned as director of the Met in 1977, helped mastermind an overhaul. While visitors to the museum in the early 1980s noticed improvements in how objects were displayed and labeled, Hoving complained in his memoir, published in 1993, that larger plans to reorganize the museum and train staff to maintain its collections had stalled. After arguing about it in committee for fifteen years, the Egyptians continued to disagree on how to best preserve and present Tut’s legacy.

Meredith Hindley is a senior writer for Humanities .

Funding information

The Metropolitan Museum of Art received a  $250,000  matching grant to support “Treasures of Tutankhamun.” The University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute received $108,894 to support a series of public programs on Egyptology and to support an exhibition, “The Magic of Egyptian Art.” The New Orleans Museum of Art received $97,492 to support an Egyptology lecture series. Sources: Material for this article was drawn from the archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.

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Tutankhamun Exhibition in Washington D.C

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A FANTASTIC IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION

Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures is an exhibition that offers guests an unprecedented glance into Ancient Egypt. With hundreds of perfectly reconstructed objects, breathtaking decorations and fascinating explanations, allows visitors to step right into the wonder of the most famous archaeological discovery site of the 20th century. Ready to travel to the era of the pharaohs?

1922 - 2023: 100 YEARS SINCE THE DISCOVERY OF THE TOMB OF THE FAMOUS PHARAOH

November 4th, 1922, Luxor. After five years of unsuccessful excavations in the Valley of the Kings, the British archaeologist Howard Carter made an incredible discovery, which remains to this day, unprecedented! Lit by the light of his candle, he discovered the impressive golden tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, who died more than 3000 years ago, surrounded by all his treasures.

TUTANKMANUN - PHARAOH OF A DYNASTY

Tutankhamun ascended to the throne in 1332 BC. at the age of 9 as one of the last kings of the 18th Dynasty. His father was the heretical king Akhenaten. The most important achievement of his reign was the rejection of his father's radical religious reforms, which had destabilized the whole country. According to the latest studies, the young king suffered from serious illnesses. He passed away after nine years on the throne and his death remains a mystery to this day.

HIS TOMB AND ITS TREASURES: OVER 1000 OBJECTS TO DISCOVER

The Metropolitan Museum sent Harry Burton to be the excavation photographer - he was 'Carters eye and memory'. With his enormous camera and cumbersome negative plates, he tirelessly surveyed the site of the discovery. He set up his laboratory in the tomb of Sethos II and improvised a darkroom in the neighboring tomb KV 55. Every step of the excavation work was documented in photographs, down to the smallest detail. A total of 2,800 large-format glass negatives were printed, listing all finds and their location in the tomb.

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Janet Jackson to play 2024 Essence Fest instead of the Smoothie King Center this summer

FILE - Janet Jackson poses in the press room during the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Nov. 5, 2022, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Jackson will make her fourth appearance at the 2024 Essence Festival of Culture, which this year runs July 5-7, 2024, in the Superdome in New Orleans. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Janet Jackson will make her fourth appearance at the 2024 Essence Festival of Culture this summer in New Orleans.

Jackson was originally scheduled to headline the Smoothie King Center on July 23 as part of her Together Again Summer 2024 tour, but her plans have changed. The appearance was canceled and now she’s a scheduled headliner for one of the three nights of concerts as part of the annual festival, which this year runs from July 5 through July 7 in the Superdome, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported.

Essence has not said on which date Jackson will perform.

Jackson previously performed at the event in 2010, 2018 and 2022. The last show sold out all 48,500 seats and was reportedly the highest grossing night in the festival’s 30-year history.

Last week, Essence revealed that a reunion of the Cash Money Millionaires collective of rappers affiliated with the New Orleans label would take place during the festival. However, no artists have been specified beyond Cash Money co-founder Bryan “Baby” Williams, aka Birdman.

Festival producers have been rolling out the roster for the event piecemeal. Some Essence fans have taken to social media to express frustration with the late start and unusual one-at-a-time reveal, the newspaper reported.

In addition to the nightly concerts inside the Superdome, the festival will include programming on networking, finance, careers, wellness, fashion, beauty and more at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and other venues citywide.

Launched in 1995 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Essence magazine, the festival has evolved into the world’s largest celebration of Black women, culture and communities, convening more than 530,000 people annually over the July Fourth weekend in New Orleans, Essence Communications Inc. has said.

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Speaking in Atlanta, the vice president began a national tour to highlight how the Biden administration is trying to help Black Americans economically.

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Vice President Kamala Harris made a new effort to energize Black voters in battleground states on Monday, visiting Atlanta for the kickoff of a national economic tour that will highlight how the Biden administration says its policies are helping a constituency that will be vital to Democrats’ success in November.

Speaking to a largely Black crowd of about 400 people, Ms. Harris laid out ways that she and President Biden have sought to improve Black Americans’ upward mobility and help them realize their business ambitions. A chief objective of the tour, she said, was to let Black business owners and entrepreneurs know about the resources available to them.

“I need the help of the leaders who are here to get the word out so people know what is available to them,” she said during a conversation at the Georgia International Convention Center with Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings of the financial literacy podcast “Earn Your Leisure,” which offers business advice to its more than two million listeners, a majority of whom are Black.

Explaining how government policies have widened the racial wealth gap over the years, Ms. Harris pointed to the Biden administration’s attempts to try to narrow it, including small-business grants and efforts to forgive student loans.

“We want to make sure people know about it — and then know where they can receive — the support to be ready to take on the work and then to grow their capacity,” she said.

Her remarks at the official White House-hosted event — drier and less political than her forceful campaign speeches on abortion recently — meandered at times.

“As much as anything, the spirit behind the push for access to capital, and in particular, on this tour, focusing on minority small businesses and Black-owned small businesses, and small businesses and entrepreneurs who are Black men, is to recognize the disparities that have existed around the access to the opportunity to achieve success,” she said at one point.

But at other moments Ms. Harris was more pointed, including when she defended diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that conservative lawmakers have pushed to dismantle in state governments and at colleges and universities .

“In spite of those who in certain parts of our country want to attack D.E.I., we understand that you can’t truly invest in the strength of our nation if you don’t pay attention to diversity, equity and inclusion,” she said.

The vice president’s Atlanta visit, her 12th trip to Georgia since taking office, was the first stop in a tour of several battleground states in the coming weeks. Much of the tour will focus on Black small businesses and economic issues that are especially pressing for Black communities. She will visit Detroit next week, aides said.

Ms. Harris’s tour will also seek to engage Black men, whom Democrats are urgently courting as polls show them softening in their support for Mr. Biden. Much of the crowd at the vice president’s event consisted of Black male political and business leaders, as well as a contingent of students from Morehouse College, a historically Black men’s college in Atlanta where President Biden will deliver the commencement address next month.

Before her speech, Ms. Harris visited an entrepreneurship hub near downtown Atlanta where she spoke with Black small-business owners.

Flanked by Georgia’s Democratic senators, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, as well as Representative Nikema Williams, the state Democratic Party chair, Ms. Harris highlighted the Biden administration’s marquee legislation, like the CHIPS and Science Act, which offers funding for small-business research projects.

She also underlined the roughly $7 billion that the administration has poured into historically Black colleges and universities, the largest investment of any White House administration.

Atlanta is set to receive more than $150 million for a project called The Stitch that is meant to revitalize the city’s downtown areas and connect them to its growing midtown neighborhoods. Georgia is one of 40 states that will receive money from a White House program that aims to repair the decades-old societal damage from federal transportation projects that disproportionately displaced Black communities.

Maya King is a politics reporter covering the Southeast, based in Atlanta. She covers campaigns, elections and movements in the American South, as well as national trends relating to Black voters and young people. More about Maya King

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Kristi Noem’s increasingly bizarre Kim Jong Un story

The South Dakota governor’s book tour is a testament to the GOP’s Trump-era push to never back down and focus instead on planting seeds of doubt.

“This is really a book that talks about how we’re not going back,” South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) told CBS News on Sunday. “We’re not going back to the days before Donald Trump. Donald Trump broke politics. And I think that’s a good thing.”

Noem, a potential Trump VP pick, is certainly right about his breaking politics, but perhaps not in the way she meant.

Her game attempt to proceed with a media tour promoting her book despite alleged inaccuracies and a story about killing her dog is a testament to the thoroughly Trumpian impulse to just push on through — while avoiding facts.

To recap: Not only has Noem faced bipartisan backlash for her story about her young dog Cricket, but other anecdotes in the book have also been called into question in recent days . There’s the meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that seems unlikely to have happened. And there is the meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron she says she canceled, and the threatening conversation with former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley she says she recalled. (Representatives for Macron and Haley have rejected her accounts.)

Through it all, Noem and her office have offered shifting accounts and, especially on the Kim story, proven bizarrely evasive.

After the South Dakota Scout last week questioned the Kim meeting — there is no record of it; Noem was a backbencher in Congress at the time; and relations between the countries were especially frosty, leading some experts to conclude there’s no way it took place — Noem and her office set about cleaning up.

Her spokesman initially cited “ conflated world leaders’ names in the book ” and said they would be addressed — a clear suggestion that Kim was mixed up with someone else.

But since then, Noem has declined repeated attempts to explain the situation. She won’t even say that she didn’t meet Kim.

CBS anchors asked her twice Sunday and twice more Monday whether she met with Kim, and Noem punted each time.

“I’m saying that I’m not talking about that meeting — I’m not talking about my meetings with world leaders,” Noem said Monday morning.

Pressed one more time on whether she met with Kim, Noem responded: “That’s the answer that I have for you, is that it will be adjusted” in the book.

Part of the problem with Noem’s saying she met Kim is that his first known foreign trip after taking power in 2011 was in 2018 . Her book claims she met him before then.

CBS’s Margaret Brennan posited that Noem had never been to North Korea. Noem responded, “I have been there.” But she proceeded to talk about visiting the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, between North and South Korea.

“There are details in this book that talk about going to the DMZ and specifics that I’m willing to share,” Noem said. “There’s some specifics I’m not willing to share with you.”

Does Noem want people to believe the meeting might have actually happened but she just can’t talk about it? That’s difficult to square with the initial comment about conflating world leaders’ names. And even if the newer implication is correct, it would mean she put a meeting she wasn’t supposed to talk about in her book, which could certainly lead to questions about her judgment.

Noem was also evasive Sunday when Brennan noted that Noem recorded the audio edition of her book.

“You didn’t catch these errors when you were recording it?” Brennan asked. (Noem’s office has admitted to using an incorrect date for the phone call with Haley.)

Noem avoided the question, saying merely: “Well, Margaret, as soon as it was brought to my attention, I took action to make sure that it was reflected.”

Noem has set about claiming persecution by the media, noting the number of times Brennan interrupted her, for instance.

“What I talk about in the book extensively, when people are able to get it on Tuesday, is to see the whole story and the truth, not the spin that the media has put on this story,” Noem said.

She added later: “I hope that they will buy it. They’ll find a lot of truthful stories.”

As for one of the book’s most publicized stories, though, it appears the truth just can’t — or won’t — be told.

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Kate Beckinsale, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Irina Shayk and more celebrities walked the red carpet at the 2024 King’s Trust Gala in New York City on Thursday night.

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