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Article: The Lion King's Garth Fagan brings his company to the Joyce. (Joyce Theater, New York City, Nov. 10-22, 1998)
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- Dance Magazine
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- November 1, 1998
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NEW YORK CITY--If seats for Garth Fagan Dance performances at the Joyce Theater sell like those for his choreography on Broadway, the theater will have to turn away 1,300 people for each show. Tony Award-winning choreographer Fagan, who created the movement for the perennially sold-out Broadway musical The Lion King at the New Amsterdam Theatre (capacity 1,775), is ecstatic about his season at the Joyce (capacity: 472), November 10 to 22.
Fagan says that after working on Broadway he "yearns and longs to work with a company of dancers that I've known and nourished for years, and who know me and my idiosyncratic moves and ideas." During the creation of The Lion ...