and you get to a point where timone and pumba are supposed to do a charleston and they do a flamencoance and the whole audience is going -- ole. so spectacular. as soon as you do that, you make it part of that culture. i think the most exciting story about this was in south africa in jo han he is burg, we were casting timone and pumba we cast a africana pum ba and you had two characters who would nevint great with each other because of apartide. and the audience felt it. it happened just by sheer casting. and then the accent and all. different -- it was very, very thrilling and they would mock each other and play with each other. there were many things like that where political and social things have happened in the experience of the lion king going into a different country. >> does commercial successor the potential of commercial success dictate how the show is put together, what goes into the show? >> everybody who is a producer is going to think about the weekly running cost. and the potential of how much money and size of the theater it could make. >> when i did lion king i had n

we cast an african pumba and a black timon.d what would be traditionally historically two characters who would never integrate with each other part of apartheid. we actually did something politically moving, socially and politically moving and the audience felt it. it happened just by sheer casting and then the accents and all of the different -- it was very thrilling and they play with each other and many things like that where political and social things have happened in the experience of "the lion king" go ing in to a dumpb country. >> does commercial success or potential of commercial success dictate how the shoet show is put together. what goes in to the show? >> everybody who is a producer will think of the weekly running costs and the potential of how much money and the size of the theater it can make. when i kid "the lion king" i had no idea what it cost. no one talked to me about money. i found out last year how much it cost but it made upwards of $6 billion no no one complained about it. >> how tough is it to introduc