Disney’s The Lion King JR. Mini ShowKit® - Director’s Guide

Sep 11, 2026

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Disney’s The Lion King JR. Mini ShowKit® Director’s Guide provides educators and school/community groups with step-by-step direction to run a complete, beginner-friendly arts curriculum paired with a 30-minute musical experience. The program supports a three-part flow—EXPLORE through two guided sessions, CREATE through two 45-minute rehearsals staging a scene and song, and SHARE through dress rehearsal and performance—using lesson plans, challenge sheets, scripts, video introductions, and optional visual character signs.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryPresentations

FormatPDF

Pages66

Reading Time23 min

AccessFree to download

Introduction

How to use the Mini ShowKit®

EXPLORE

Getting Started

Session 1

Session 2

CREATE

Getting Started

Rehearsal Overview

Rehearsal 1

Rehearsal 2

Script

Dress Rehearsal & Performance

Welcome to The Lion King Experience Welcome to the theater! We’ve created this Mini ShowKit® to give educators like you a chance to sample King Experience, an innovative and rigorous theater curriculum coupled with The Lion a stage musical designed to help schools and community groups bolster their arts-education offerings. Through The Lion King Experience JR. Edition, the African savanna comes to life on your stage in our 30-minute musical for elementary school students. This easy-to-use program combines a curriculum with a show to give you all the tools you need to EXPLORE, CREATE, and SHARE the arts with your students. EXPLORE theater through educational sessions! A complete curriculum, including detailed lesson plans and corresponding student materials, allows you and your students to explore the varied aspects of theater. CREATE theater through rehearsing a musical! Apply what you’ve learned! Use the foundations of theater-making explored in the curriculum to rehearse and build your own production of The Lion King JR. SHARE theater through a performance! See your hard work come to life on stage when your students put on the show! In this Mini ShowKit® of The Lion King Experience, you will have the opportunity to EXPLORE (through two lesson plans), CREATE (through two rehearsals), and SHARE (through a performance of a scene and song) the arts with your students! You don’t need to have a theater background to do The Lion King Experience with your students – all you need is time, space, and a few eager collaborators. Even with this brief exploration and rehearsal process, you will be surprised by what your students can do! And then you will discover that building a theater program in your school is within reach. [LionKingExperience.com](LionKingExperience.com) Mini ShowKit® Contents Table of Contents INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 1 EXPLORE Getting Started................................................................................................................................3 Session 1 ............................................................................................................................................5 Session 2 ......................................................................................................................................... 23 CREATE Getting Started............................................................................................................................. 31 Rehearsal Overview .................................................................................................................... 32 Rehearsal 1..................................................................................................................................... 36 Rehearsal 2..................................................................................................................................... 40 Script ................................................................................................................................................ 44 SHARE Dress Rehearsal & Performance ............................................................................................. 60 Disney’s The Lion King JR. Mini ShowKit® Introduction How to use the Mini ShowKit® EXPLORE Over two 45-minute sessions, your students will EXPLORE the world of The Lion King through projectbased learning. In this section, you will find step-by-step instructions for how to facilitate the two sessions using provided lesson plans. Lesson Plans Included are two lesson plans from The Lion King Experience: JR. Edition. Each session includes step-bystep instructions for facilitating the day’s learning. We have selected Session 1 and Session 13 from the Experience curriculum (listed in the Mini ShowKit® as Session 1 and 2) .

FAQs

What is the Mini ShowKit® designed to help educators do?

It gives educators a ready-to-use theater curriculum combined with a show, helping schools and community groups strengthen arts education through The Lion King JR. experience.

How does the program’s workflow move from learning to performance?

Students EXPLORE through two lesson-plan sessions, CREATE through two rehearsals staging a scene and song, and SHARE through a dress rehearsal and performance of a scene and song.

What materials come with the Mini ShowKit® for running the sessions and rehearsals?

The guide includes lesson plans and student materials, challenge sheets, script excerpts, a materials disc with video introductions and electronic copies, and optional character signs for visual support.

Sep 11, 2026

Uploaded by Dozel