The Lion King will be featured on the hit CBS drama, “Code Black,” starring Marcia Gay Harden, in an episode to air Wednesday, Nov. 25 (10:00 – 11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The episode features Alton Fitzgerald White, who played a record-breaking 4,000 performances as “Mufasa” in The Lion King, and eight members of The Lion King North American Tour.
When the lead actor of The Lion King tour (Alton Fitzgerald White) arrives at Angels Memorial with a throat infection, Leanne (Marcia Gay Harden) gives him a diagnosis that puts both his career and life in jeopardy. In a related plotline, the doctors and the cast of The Lion King help a 17-year-old boy deal with the difficult decision of taking his father off life support, on “Code Black.”