{"id":1023,"date":"2013-01-04T02:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T02:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2013-01-04T02:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T02:48:13","slug":"the-lion-king-national-tour-in-san-francisco-broke-box-office-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/the-lion-king-national-tour-in-san-francisco-broke-box-office-records\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion King National Tour in San Francisco &#8211; Broke Box Office Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lion King national tour of set a new box office record, selling $2,100,980 in tickets during the week ending December 30 while playing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-orpheum-theater-san-francisco.html\">San Francisco\u2019s Orpheum Theatre<\/a>. The figure ranks as the highest weekly domestic gross in the tour\u2019s 10-year history. The blockbuster show will go on to play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-austin-tx-tickets.html\">Austin TX<\/a> (January 16 to February 10, 2013), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-detroit-mi-tickets.html\">Detroit MI<\/a> (February 14 to March 10, 2013), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-omaha-ne-tickets.html\">Omaha NE<\/a> (March 12 to April 07, 2013) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-appleton-wi-tickets.html\">Appleton WI<\/a> (April 09 to May 05, 2013) in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Lion King is the story of Simba, a young lion prince who idolizes his kingly father, while youthfully shirking the responsibility his position in life requires. When an unthinkable tragedy, orchestrated by Simba\u2019s wicked uncle, takes his father\u2019s life, Simba flees the Pride Lands, leaving the life he knew behind. Simba starts anew, but the weight of responsibility comes to find him as an adult, and Simba must eventually fulfill his destiny to be king. The score by Elton John and Tim Rice features the songs \u201cThe Circle of Life\u201d and \u201cCan You Feel The Love Tonight?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The show stars Jelani Remy as Simba, Derek Smith as Scar, Dionne Randolph as Mufasa, Buyi Zama as Rafiki, Syndee Winters as Nala, Ben Lipitz as Pumbaa and Nick Cordileone as Timon. The production is directed by Tony winner Julie Taymor.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete story {Via <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/austin.broadway.com\/buzz\/166373\/the-lion-king-national-tour-breaks-box-office-records-during-christmas-week\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/austin.broadway.com\/buzz\/166373\/the-lion-king-national-tour-breaks-box-office-records-during-christmas-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">austin.broadway.com<\/a>}<\/p>\n<p>Lion King will be in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-san-francisco-ca-tickets.html\">San Francisco<\/a> through January 13, 2013. Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-orpheum-theater-san-francisco.html\">Lion King Orpheum Theater San Francisco Tickets<\/a> Online at discounted prices. <strong>SAVE $10 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-san-francisco-ca-tickets.html\">Lion King San Francisco CA Tickets<\/a> on orders of $350 or more by using code AFF$10.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nwpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lion King national tour of set a new box office record, selling $2,100,980 in tickets during the week ending December 30 while playing at San Francisco\u2019s Orpheum Theatre. The figure ranks as the highest weekly domestic gross in the tour\u2019s 10-year history. The blockbuster show will go on to play Austin TX (January 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,421,422,384,385,381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}