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Lion King Broadway musical grossed $2,125,661 and had an attendance rate of 100.0%, about 2.8% more than that of the previous week. 12 Broadway shows join the $1 million club at the box office for the week ending Nov. 25 – the first time that’s happened all year 2012. Lion King ($2.1 million) also join the $2 million club with Wicked. The 31 shows on the boards grossed $27,019,879, improving around 23.94% from the previous week’s totals.

Below are the Top 15 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending November 25, 2012.

1. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $2,290,819
2. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $2,125,661
3. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,801,672
4. Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark – (FOXWOODS) $1,779,777
5. Annie – (PALACE) $1,499,879
6. Once – (JACOBS) $1,166,784
7. The Phantom Of The Opera – (MAJESTIC) $1,125,470
8. Mary Poppins – (NEW AMSTERDAM) $1,118,687
9. Newsies – (NEDERLANDER) $1,106,383
10. A Christmas Story – (LUNT-FONTANNE) $1,104,312
11. Evita – (MARQUIS) $1,012,795
12. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $1,009,048
13. ELF – (AL HIRSCHFELD) $997,145
14. Nice Work If You Can Get It – (IMPERIAL) $877,412
15. Mamma Mia! – (WINTER GARDEN) $862,275

{Via BroadwayWorld.com}

The North American tour of Disney’s The Lion King broke the box office record at Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. Lion King with only eight performances the week ending November 25, became the highest grossing show for a Broadway engagement, grossing $1,674,059. This marks the first time the record has been broken since January 30, 2010. The Broadway hit Musical, Lion King concludes it’s San Francisco CA run on January 13, 2013.

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Lion King Broadway musical grossed $1,402,169 and had an attendance rate of 97.2%, about 5.9% more than that of the previous week. The 33 shows on the boards grossed $20,881,277, improving around 6.14% from the previous week’s totals.

Below are the Top 16 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending November 18, 2012.

1. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,620,206
2. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $1,598,476
3. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $1,402,169
4. Glengarry Glen Ross – (SCHOENFELD) $1,157,319
5. Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark – (FOXWOODS) $1,112,179
6. Once – (JACOBS) $983,986
7. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $892,074
8. Annie – (PALACE) $883,946
9. Evita – (MARQUIS) $828,669
10. Nice Work If You Can Get It – (IMPERIAL) $821,857
11. Newsies – (NEDERLANDER) $801,915
12. The Phantom Of The Opera – (MAJESTIC) $659,195
13. Mary Poppins – (NEW AMSTERDAM) $635,633
14. The Heiress – (WALTER KERR) $614,916
15. Mamma Mia! – (WINTER GARDEN) $584,024
16. ELF – (AL HIRSCHFELD) $545,080

{Via BroadwayWorld.com}

Disney’s Tony Award-winning musical The Lion King celebrated its 15th Anniversary performance on Sunday, November 18, with a special multi-lingual rendition of the show’s iconic anthem “Circle of Life,” sung by six “Rafikis” from around the world. Julie Taymor, Lebo M., and Six Rafikis Mark The Lion King’s 15th Anniversary on Broadway – The Photo Gallery by David Gordon at TheaterMania.com

Most of the musical’s original creative team, including Tony Award-winning director/co-costume designer Julie Taymor and vocal arranger/composer Lebohang “Lebo M.” Morake, took the stage after curtain-call for a celebratory bow. As confetti canons fired, they lead the packed house in a musical encore (joined by multi-lingual monkeys).

Six Rafikis at The Lion King’s 15th Anniversary

Three Rafikis and Julie Taymor

Director Julie Taymor with Cast Members

Composer Lebohang “Lebo M” Morake

Thank you to the New York pride for the last 15 years

The Lion King Original Creative Team On Stage

The current cast of The Lion King features Patrick R. Brown (Scar), Alton Fitzgerald White (Mufasa), Tshidi Manye (Rafiki), Jeff Binder (Zazu), Benn Jeffrey (Pumbaa), Fred Berman (Timon), Andile Gumbi (Simba), and Chantel Riley (Nala).

Check the complete gallery {Via TheaterMania.com}

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Lion King Broadway musical grossed $1,506,571 and had an attendance rate of 91.3%, about 3.2% more than that of the previous week. The 32 shows on the boards grossed $19,598,834, improving around 30.72% from the previous week’s totals.

Below are the Top 16 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending November 11, 2012.

1. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,627,820
2. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $1,506,571
3. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $1,506,283
4. Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark – (FOXWOODS) $1,077,972
5. Glengarry Glen Ross – (SCHOENFELD) $991,322
6. Once – (JACOBS) $948,613
7. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $892,540
8. Annie – (PALACE) $872,700
9. Evita – (MARQUIS) $864,021
10. Newsies – (NEDERLANDER) $740,138
11. Nice Work If You Can Get It – (IMPERIAL) $736,134
12. The Phantom Of The Opera – (MAJESTIC) $647,157
13. Mamma Mia! – (WINTER GARDEN) $612,816
14. Mary Poppins – (NEW AMSTERDAM) $603,559
15. The Heiress – (WALTER KERR) $583,852
16. War Horse – (VIVIAN BEAUMONT) $516,829

{Via BroadwayWorld.com}

Disney’s Tony-winning musical The Lion King celebrates 15 magical years on Broadway. The landmark production, which combined cutting edge technology with inventive new uses for masks and puppets, opened at the newly refurbished New Amsterdam Theatre on November 13, 1997. A decade and a half later, The Lion King continues to be one of the hottest tickets in town at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre.

In honor of its anniversary, Broadway.com shares 15 fascinating facts about the show everyone loves.

1. Julie Taymor became the first woman to win a Tony Award for Direction of a Musical for her work on The Lion King and took home a second Tony for the show’s costumes.

2. Before giving a Tony-nominated performance as Mufasa, Samuel E. Wright provided the voice of Sebastian the Crab in Disney’s film The Little Mermaid and debuted the Oscar-winning song “Under the Sea.”

3. The character of Rafiki was changed from an old man in the film to a woman in the musical in order to provide a leading role for a female actress. Good call: Tsidii Le Loka received a Tony nomination for her performance.

4. The Broadway production has played through three Presidential administrations, four mayoral elections and the opening and closing of 536 Broadway shows.

5. The Rhinos in the musical wear Vans sneakers.

6. With a cumulative gross in excess of $5 billion, The Lion King has earned more than the Lord of the Rings film trilogy combined, more than the six Star Wars films combined and more than Avatar and Titanic combined.

7. Pumbaa’s costume weighs 45 pounds and is worn like a backpack.

8. The box office clout of The Lion King shows no signs of waning: 125,000 more tickets were sold in its 15th year than in the 14th, and 50,000 more tickets were sold than in the 10th year of the run.

9. Dancers in black costumes, gloves and hats manipulate pieces of Mufasa’s face on poles to create the scene in which he appears to Simba under the stars.

10. The Lion King’s 21 productions have played in 98 cities in 16 countries on every continent except Antarctica.

11. Pride Rock can rotate in either direction and is segmented into three parts, which go up and down separately (but in order).

12. Though The Lion King lost the 1998 Tony for Best Score to Ragtime, three of Elton John and Tim Rice’s songs had already been nominated for the Oscar. “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” won Best Song in 1995 over “The Circle of Life” and “Hakuna Matata.”

13. The Lion King orchestra is comprised of 23 musicians: 17 in the pit, two percussionists in the boxes and four brass instrumentalists who play down the hall because they don’t fit into the pit.

14. Despite being small, Zazu the bird is actually the most complicated puppet in the show.

15. In order to get into costume, the actor playing the giraffe sits at the top of a six-foot ladder and has a dresser help attach his headpiece and stilts to his feet and hands.

The Lion King will celebrates 15 years on Broadway on November 13 at the Minskoff Theatre.

Lion King Broadway musical grossed $1,121,501 and had an attendance rate of 88.1%, about 8.4% less than that of the previous week. The 28 shows on the boards grossed $13,578,727, dropping around 42.23% from the previous week’s totals.

Below are the Top 13 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending November 04, 2012.

1. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,332,221
2. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $1,166,275
3. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $1,121,501
4. Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark – (FOXWOODS) $810,685
5. Once – (JACOBS) $783,614
6. Glengarry Glen Ross – (SCHOENFELD) $744,703
7. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $651,908
8. Evita – (MARQUIS) $642,500
9. Annie – (PALACE) $638,714
10. Mamma Mia! – (WINTER GARDEN) $541,421
11. Newsies – (NEDERLANDER) $539,986
12. The Phantom Of The Opera – (MAJESTIC) $505,593
13. Mary Poppins – (NEW AMSTERDAM) $465,738

{Via BroadwayWorld.com}

Disney’s hit musical “The Lion King” roars back into San Francisco and is currently performing at Orpheum Theatre – San Francisco through the holiday season January 13, 2013. Karen D’Souza reviewed the musical at MercuryNews.com. Here is the review:

“Lion King” is buoyed by its dazzling use of puppetry, which ranges from Japanese Bunraku puppets to Indonesian shadow puppets. Little Simba flees his home, the Pridelands, and his lifelong chum Nala (Kailah McFadden and Sade Phillip-Demorcy share the role), for the wilds of the jungle where he befriends a smart aleck meerkat Timon (Nick Cordileone) and a flatulent warthog Pumbaa (Ben Lipitz).

Amid the chaos of the savanna, Simba comes of age (Jelani Remy plays Simba as a young man). Emboldened by the now formidable huntress Nala (Syndee Winters), he resolves to right the wrongs committed by his uncle, who has destroyed the balance of nature in this fragile ecosystem. Under the watchful eye of the shaman baboon Rafiki (Buyi Zama), Simba fights for his rightful place in the pride.

If the narrative arc seems a little thin, the African chants and rhythms are irresistible (they definitely upstage the Elton John and Tim Rice numbers), Garth Fagan’s choreography infectious and the story suitably heartwarming. Certainly, the show’s environmental messages are nicely woven together with its meditation on the cycle of life so that even the littlest audience member can follow the themes.

Read the complete review {Via MercuryNews.com}

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