Longest-Running Rafiki Says Goodbye to 'The Lion King'
After more than 9,000 performances as the shaman in the Broadway show, Tshidi Manye prepares to hang up her baboon costume.
Today is Monday, May 18, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Lawrence Anderson Billy Hipkins Rob Bartlett Denny Dillon Mark Mothersbaugh Andreas Katsulas Miriam Margolyes Robert Morse Pernell Roberts Eddie Phillips Priscilla Pointer Liam Sullivan Lucille Kallen Skedge Miller Dean Norton Charles Louis Trenet Perry Como Meredith Willson Walter Fitzgerald Madge West Myrtle Tannehill James Bernard Fagan Lucy Beaumont Francesco Maria Piave Jennifer Moore Nathaniel Parker Dale Launer Nicholas Wyman Gail Strickland Don Bachardy Honey Waldman Bill Macy Margot Fonteyn Isobel Lennart Pierre Balmain Frank Capra