Archive for November, 2012
Lion King Will Return to Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center 2013-14 Season
The Tony Award-winning Broadway sensation Lion King returns to the Benedum Center stage. Disney’s The Lion King will return to Pittsburgh for a four-week run in September 2013 at the Benedum Center as a part of the PNC Broadway Across America – Pittsburgh. Lion King set to Perform at the Benedum Center from September 03 to September 29, 2013.
Single tickets for “The Lion King” will go on sale to the general public on May 6. The engagement opens PNC’s Broadway Across America 2013-14 season.
The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts, a Pittsburgh Cultural Trust theater, is a focal point of Pittsburgh’s Cultural District with 2,800 seats. The Lion King musical had previous runs in Pittsburgh in 2004 and 2008. Lion King’s 2008 engagement in Pittsburgh was record-breaking.
The Lion King Benedum Center Performance Dates:
Tuesday Sep 03 – 7:30PM
Wednesday Sep 04 – 7:30PM
Thursday Sep 05 – 7:30PM
Friday Sep 06 – 8:00PM
Saturday Sep 07 – 2:00PM and 8:00PM
Sunday Sep 08 – 1:00PM and 6:30PM
Tuesday Sep 10 – 7:30PM
Wednesday Sep 11 – 7:30PM
Thursday Sep 12 – 7:30PM
Friday Sep 13 – 8:00PM
Saturday Sep 14 – 2:00PM and 8:00PM
Sunday Sep 15 – 1:00PM and 6:30PM
Tuesday Sep 17 – 7:30PM
Wednesday Sep 18 – 7:30PM
Thursday Sep 19 – 7:30PM
Friday Sep 20 – 8:00PM
Saturday Sep 21 – 2:00PM and 8:00PM
Sunday Sep 22 – 1:00PM and 6:30PM
Tuesday Sep 24 – 7:30PM
Wednesday Sep 25 – 7:30PM
Thursday Sep 26 – 1:00PM and 7:30PM
Friday Sep 27 – 8:00PM
Saturday Sep 28 – 2:00PM and 8:00PM
Sunday Sep 29 – 1:00PM
Lion King Benedum Center tickets can be purchased online now with discounted prices. Buy Lion King Pittsburgh PA Tickets Online, Save $10 on orders of $350 or more.
The Lion King Will Celebrate 15 Years on Broadway November 13
The multiple Tony Award-winning musical The Lion King will celebrate 15 years on Broadway Nov. 13 at the Minskoff Theatre. To mark the milestone Broadway.com will roll out a series of Character Study videos featuring the musical’s leading actors.
Lion King Broadway company is currently headed by Patrick R. Brown as Scar, Alton Fitzgerald White as Mufasa and Tshidi Manye as Rafiki.
Based on the popular Disney film, The Lion King opened on Broadway on November 13, 1997 at the New Amsterdam Theatre and won six Tony Awards in 1998 including Best Musical. Director Julie Taymor became the first woman in history to win the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical. The show has spawned 19 productions around the world and has been translated into seven different languages. The Lion King is the fifth longest-running show in Broadway history.
The musical currently plays Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre. Buy Lion King Broadway Tickets Online, Save $10 on orders of $350 or more.
Lion King Dazzles with Pride, Joy – Musical at Orpheum Theatre Review
Lion King is currently performing at Orpheum Theatre – San Francisco stage and continue through Sunday, January 13, 2013. SF Examiner Arts Editor Leslie Katz reviewed the musical as ‘Lion King’ dazzles with pride, joy. Here is the review:
It’s easy to understand why the show, at the Orpheum Theatre through Jan. 13, is the biggest Broadway money-maker of all time.
“The Lion King” isn’t your basic musical: It’s a gigantic, fluid piece of visual art for kids and adults. It also happens to have catchy songs and a touching and funny book based on a huge hit animated family film.
Director-puppet maker-costume designer and co-lyricist Julie Taymor is a genius. Her extraordinary reinvention of the Disney movie about the lion cub Simba’s tumultuous coming of age exemplifies the unthinkable heights to which the creative mind can soar.
From the first strains of Rafiki’s (Buyi Zama) opening song “Circle of Life.” and the grand entrance of the most amazing ever life-sized puppet animals – an elephant, rhino, giraffes, antelopes, a cheetah – the audience is mesmerized.
These aren’t big plush toys. Taymor and puppet design partner Michael Curry’s creations are both naturalistic and fantastic. Ingeniously composed using carefully calibrated masks and fabric, they complement, rather than cover up, the actors. At least half the fun of the show is trying to figure out how the performers manipulate their complex outerwear.
The dancers’ costumes are equally amazing. Wearing headdresses of squares of sprouting blades, they set the stage in African grasslands in an opening scene.
With a book attributed to Roger Allers (movie co-director) and Irene Mecchi (screenplay co-writer), there are nods to the cartoon: Wisecracking meerkat Timon (Nick Cordileone) and sidekick warthog Pumbaa (Ben Lipitz), who befriend Simba (Jelani Remy) after he’s banished from his home, have a cute shtick and clearly resemble their movie counterparts.
But “The Lion King’s” unending wonder is in its ingenuity, from an amazingly crafted, massive stampede in which Simba’s noble father Mufasa (Dionna Randolph) dies, all the way down to a teeny, scurrying shadow puppet mouse.
The score, including the ballad “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” the feel-good “Hakuna Matata” and African-flavored act-openers “Circle of Life” and “One by One,” sounds terrific sung by the powerfully voiced cast.
Read the complete review {Via SFExaminer.com}
Lion King will be in San Francisco CA will continue through January 13, 2013. Buy Lion King Orpheum Theatre San Francisco Tickets Online at discounted prices – Save $10 on Orders of $350 or more, Use code AFF$10.
Disney’s Lion King Lyceum Theatre Tickets on Sale till 29 Sep 2013
Disney’s The Lion King extends its booking period – tickets on sale till 29 Sep 2013 at the Lyceum Theatre.
Disney’s The Lion King opened in the West End’s Lyceum Theatre on 19 Oct 1999. The show celebrated its 13th anniversary in London in October 2012 and is currently the 9th longest-running musical in West End history. Over 9 million people have now seen it at the Lyceum Theatre.
Lion King Musical Story: When the young lion prince Simba is born his evil uncle Scar is pushed back to second in line to the throne. Scar plots to kill both Simba and his father, King Mufasa, and proclaim himself king. Simba survives but is led to believe that his father died because of him and he decides to flee the kingdom. The show currently features Shaun Escoffery (Mufasa) and George Asprey (Scar).
Lion King musical directed by Julie Taymor, designed by Richard Hudson, lighting by Donald Holder with choreography by Garth Fagan.
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Lion King Broadway Box Office Update for Week Ending Oct 28, 2012
Lion King Broadway musical grossed $1,431,056 and had an attendance rate of 96.5%, about 2.7% less than that of the previous week. The Lion King slipped to NO:2 spot with “Wicked” ($1,657,271) managed to weather the storm and came out on top this week.
The 29 shows on the boards grossed $20,083,786, dropping around 8.39% from the previous week’s totals.
Below are the Top 16 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending October 28, 2012.
1. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $1,657,271
2. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $1,431,056
3. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,423,087
4. Glengarry Glen Ross – (SCHOENFELD) $1,142,044
5. Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark – (FOXWOODS) $1,047,792
6. Evita – (MARQUIS) $1,040,801
7. Once – (JACOBS) $1,028,424
8. Nice Work If You Can Get It – (IMPERIAL) $984,485
9. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $959,737
10. Newsies – (NEDERLANDER) $845,173
11. The Phantom Of The Opera – (MAJESTIC) $833,059
12. Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons On Broadway – (BROADWAY) $770,182
13. Annie – (PALACE) $703,126
14. Mamma Mia! – (WINTER GARDEN) $667,027
15. Mary Poppins – (NEW AMSTERDAM) $581,807
16. War Horse – (VIVIAN BEAUMONT) $578,501
{Via BroadwayWorld.com}
