Judah Bellamy and Shaylin Becton have joined the Broadway company of the hit musical The Lion King as Young Simba and Young Nala respectively. Bellamy and Becton began performances on March 29 at the Minskoff Theatre.

The Lion King marks the Broadway debut for both performers. They will alternate the roles with Alphonso Romero Jones II and Khail Toi Bryant ...

Patrick Wilson may have his eyes set on TV as he readies to star in a supernatural pilot for CBS, but the Tony nominee still has a special place in his heart for Broadway. On March 28, the talented vet of All My Sons, Oklahoma! and The Full Monty treated his wife, actress Dagmara Dominczyk, and their precious son, Kalin ...

Valentine’s Day is almost here, and Broadway.com reached out to some of the most romantic people we know—Broadway stars—to get the scoop on heart-melting gifts, swoon-worthy tunes and more.

CHAUNTEÉ SCHULER (Nala in The Lion King)

What Broadway show tune makes you swoon and why?
"I Get a Kick Out Of You" from Anything Goes. It ...

As the curtain goes down on 2010, Broadway.com is looking ahead to the new year. We’ve asked the brightest stars on Broadway to reflect on their personal highlights from the past year and to reveal their hopes for 2011. Check out what they had to say, and have a Happy New Year!

DASHAUN YOUNG (Simba in The Lion ...

As The Lion King’s Mufasa, Alton Fitzgerald White oversees the entirety of Pride Rock’s animal population. White’s kingly instincts have filtered into his dressing room at the New Amsterdam Theatre, where he’s taken control to ensure everything is just right. “This is called Citrus Orange,” he says of the brightly colored painted walls. “It’s happy ...

What better time than the holidays to take in a Broadway show as a family? On December 11, Emmy Award winner Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order: SVU and her Broadway vet husband, Peter Hermann (Talk Radio), took their uber-adorable four-year-old son, August, to see the megahit musical The Lion King. After the performance, the fam headed backstage at the Minskoff ...

Eleven-year-old Shannon Tavarez, who played Young Nala in the Broadway musical The Lion King, has lost her battle with acute myeloid leukemia. The young actress passed away on November 1 after spearheading efforts to register new bone marrow donors.

"Shannon's strength and her happy, positive spirit will live on in our hearts and minds each day," her mother Odiney ...

During each performance of The Lion King, Gareth Saxe takes the stage as the insidious villain Scar to warn audiences “Be Prepared.” It takes plenty of preparation on Saxe’s part to get into lion mode each night. Broadway.com snuck backstage at the Minskoff Theatre to follow Saxe during his pre-show transformation from nice guy to ferocious animal. Elaborate ...

Earlier this summer, TV Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky spent a glamorous weekend in New York City where she brought her pack of potential suitors to check out the Disney magic of The Lion King. There she “auditioned” the men to see who would claim her heart. Four months later, Fedotowsky has chosen her own king, Roberto Martinez, and the newly engaged ...

As Scar, the jealous brother of King Mufasa, The Lion King’s Gareth Saxe sings out a vicious warning to “Be Prepared.” After turns in such Shakespeare classics as Hamlet and Richard III and the Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s dark Homecoming, Saxe himself is well prepared to take on the Bard-inspired Disney classic. Broadway.com caught up with ...