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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}

The musical currently plays Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre. Buy Lion King Broadway Tickets Online, SAVE $10 on orders of $350 or more by using the code AFF$10.

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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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

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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 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}

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