BACKGROUND
In The Lion King on Broadway, the story largely depends on how the costumes can help the actors stay hidden in the environment created on set. This creates suspense for the audience, and also links to a major storyline about animals camouflaging with their surroundings so that they can hide from their predators.
IDEA
To relate the mask to the importance of blending in with surroundings…
Let’s make the Lion King blend in to the streets of NYC and reimagine the mask as a manhole cover.
RECOGNITION🏆
Graphis New Talent, Honorable Mention x2
The Manhole cover is life size compared to an actual NYC manhole cover which has a diameter of about 3 feet! Using a CNC Router, it was cut out of an MDF board and then sanded down to get a more rough and worn down look.
Then, the manhole cover was coated with an Iron metallic finish and sprayed with a rust/oxidation solution to resemble the Iron material.
Here it is on display at the Minskoff theatre!