BOSTON (CBS) -- Disney's The Lion King is unlike any other musical on the stage today. Over the past 22 years, the show's innovative approach to creating the animal characters has been thrilling ...

‘The Lion King’ roars into Disney’s realm of animals just like us, and a tendency to anthropomorphize animals found even in nature documentaries ...

Some 25 animals are represented in the musical "The Lion Kings." Here's what you need to know about them, and which you can also see at the Zoo.

But The Lion King foregoes humans entirely for an all-animal cast, just like the animated original. And just like the animated original, the new Lion King does not feature any actual animals. At all.

Naaaaants ingonyama bagithi baba! Disney's 'The Lion King' comes out this week, and we recast the movie using characters from Zoo Knoxville!

‘The Lion King’ roars into Disney’s realm of animals just like us, and a tendency to anthropomorphize animals found even in nature documentaries ...