"Shooting Stars" Actor Caleb McLaughlin Actually Got His Start in a Disney Broadway Fave

While McLaughlin may have gotten his first acting role in the Glimmerglass Opera House's production of "Lost in the Stars," his first starring role was on Broadway. From 2012 to 2014, he played his dream role of Young Simba in "The Lion King," becoming the longest-running actor to play the role. "My parents took me to see 'The Lion King' two years before I got the job," McLaughlin previously told Neu Neu Media in 2019. "I just knew that I wanted to be Simba. A few months later, I started community theater and then I was the right age to audition. There were like, five auditions before I got the part. I was young and I realized I was blessed to get it. So many kids auditioned more than once, some ten to eleven times."