“Double Event” of Julie Taymor in the musical “The Lion King”
“The Lion King” is one of the most popular musicals on Broadway today, based on the Disney cartoon of the same name with music by Elton John. The musical premiered on July 31, 1997 in Minneapolis at the Orpheum Theater and was a huge success, followed by the legendary Broadway show. The stage adaptation of the Disney animated story made world musical theater history thanks to the direction of Julie Taymor. The purpose of the study is to identify and summarize the directorial innovations of Julie Taymor in the production of the musical “The Lion King”. The article considers the prerequisites that influenced the development of the director's author's aesthetics, defines the director's main approaches to writing the script and decorating the Broadway show. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the study of the recent history of the American musical theater on the example of the longest-running project of The Walt Disney Company, as well as in the systematization of the artistic relationship between the musical and theatrical-spectacular structures. The optics of the article lies in the study of the dialogism of the artistic structures of the performance and the animated film. As a result of the study, special attention is paid to the concept of “double event”, which is the basis of the director's method of Julie Taymor when working on the musical “The Lion King” (1997).