Circle of Love
Nick Cordileone (left) as Timon
and Cherry Hill native Ben Lipitz as Pumbaa
in the production of The Lion King
coming to the Academy of Music,
starting May 20.

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our poems and play together in
a great circle — blee reshit, blee
tachhlit — without beginning
and without end.”
It takes a jungle, it takes a
shtetl: Portnoy cites the show’s
lyrical “He Lives in You” —
“which sounds very much like
a Jewish prayer, except it’s part-
ly in African, not Hebrew!” — as
a bow and curtsy to the magnifi-
cence of ancestral wisdom:
©DISNEY. PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS
“He lives in you.

He lives in me.

He watches over
Everything we see.

Into the water.

Into the truth.

In your reflection
He lives in you.”
Paula Goldstein, president
and CEO of the Jewish Family
and Children’s Service of Great-
er Philadelphia, agrees.

“As Simba grows up, he em-
braces his father’s value of com-
munal responsibility and takes
the reins to lead his kingdom,”
she says.

The musical “represents the
bittersweet aspects of family
life, with Simba ultimately tak-
ing hold of the responsibility
that his father had” as he “rises
to be a leader of the lion nation.”
Jewish communal leader,
theatrical cognoscenti and emi-
nent Philadelphia attorney Lou
Fryman has more than earned
the love, respect and admiration
of his own grandchildren. In a
way he is their Fryman king. As
a zayde well familiar with the
message-bestowing musical,
he sees the show as emblemat-
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