Geoff Hoyle

{{Short description|English actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Geoff Hoyle''' (born 15 April 1946) is an English performer who originated the role of Zazu in the Broadway theatre production of ''The Lion King.'' Hoyle has also performed in vaudeville shows, worked with Bill Irwin in "The Pickle Family Circus", performed with Cirque Du Soleil's Nouvelle Expérience,<ref name="Geoff Hoyle's Cirque du Soleil profile">{{cite web |url= http://www.cirquetribune.com/database/artist.php?id=906 |title= Cirque Tribune |author= Cirque Tribune users |work= Cirque du Soleil |date= 28 March 2009 |quote= |access-date= 28 March 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150609193158/http://www.cirquetribune.com/database/artist.php?id=906 |archive-date= 9 June 2015 |url-status= dead }}</ref> and performed with the Revels.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}}

In 2002, Hoyle performed in "Feast of Fools" at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California.<ref name="OsmondCurtainUp">{{cite web |url= http://www.curtainup.com/feastoffools.html |title= Review: Feast of Fools |author= Gordon Osmond |work= CurtainUp |date= 16 June 2002 |quote= }}</ref>

In 2007, Hoyle performed in Teatro ZinZanni<ref name="CraigContraCosta">{{cite web |url= http://www.contracostatimes.com/patcraig/ci_6758659 |title= ZinZanni performers ready for anything |author= Pat Craig |work= Contra Costa Times |date= 30 August 2007 |quote= }}</ref> in both its Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California venues.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}}

Geoff's son Dan Hoyle is a theater actor in San Francisco and New York.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}}

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