Every day, Jürgen Hooper, brings the character of Zazu to life in the North American touring stage production of Disney's The Lion King.
Zazu is just one of 200 puppets used in the show which also features a puppet giraffe that stands 18-feet-tall to a 13-foot-long elephant that takes four actors to carefully walk it down the orchestra aisle.
"I had a kind of intensive rehearsal process for about two weeks before coming out to join the show, where I had to do a three-step process, first figuring out where Zazu lived in my body and then figuring out the mechanics of how this worked and thinking about the acting and blending the two together." Hooper said.
"So one of the main tenants of the show is not to hide the puppeteer, so a lot of puppet shows would have the actors dressed in black so just the puppet would be seen, this is the absolute opposite of that. We make the actor and the puppet the focuses of the show and both of them are working in tandem," Reilly said.
Just the yearly upkeep and maintenance of the 20 grasslands headdresses requires over 3,000 stalks of grass.
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