L. Steven Taylor got the call that would change his life in 2005: Would he like to make his Broadway debut in “The Lion King”? It was just a six-month contract but he took it, uprooting his family and moving to New York.
“Six months has turned into 16 years,” Taylor says with a smile. “The show just kept kind of pulling me back, calling me back. It’s home for me.”
Taylor got the honor to restart “The Lion King” this week as Mufasa, the king, after 18 months of silence due to the pandemic. Roars greeted him as he stood atop Pride Rock at Tuesday’s reopening. Being back is both familiar and not.
“It’s just different and the same,” he says. “It’s kind of these two feelings fighting with each other constantly everywhere.”
Taylor started in the Broadway ensemble, went out on tour, took a break to do other
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