{"id":215,"date":"2010-11-13T06:44:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T06:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2010-11-13T06:45:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T06:45:51","slug":"the-lion-king-celebrates-13-years-on-broadway-at-the-minskoff-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/the-lion-king-celebrates-13-years-on-broadway-at-the-minskoff-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion King Celebrates 13 Years on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tony-winning musical The Lion King celebrates 13 years on Broadway Saturday, November, 13 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-minskoff-theatre.html\">Minskoff Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney musical made its world premiere on July 13, 1997, in Minneapolis at the Orpheum Theatre before officially opening on Broadway Nov. 13, 1997, at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The production moved to the Minskoff Theatre in June 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The musical, which is now the eighth longest-running musical in Broadway history, currently features Gareth Saxe, Alton Fitzgerald White, Tshidi Manye, Cameron Pow, Ben Jeffrey and Fred Berman.<\/p>\n<p>The Broadway score features Elton John and Tim Rice\u2019s music from &#8220;The Lion King&#8221; animated film along with three new songs by John and Rice; additional musical material by South African Lebo M, Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Taymor and Hans Zimmer; and music from &#8220;Rhythm of the Pride Lands,&#8221; an album inspired by the original music in the film, written by Lebo M, Mark Mancina and Hans Zimmer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/lion-king-minskoff-theatre.html\">Buy Lion King Minskoff Theatre Tickets online<\/a>.<\/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 Tony-winning musical The Lion King celebrates 13 years on Broadway Saturday, November, 13 at the Minskoff Theatre. The Disney musical made its world premiere on July 13, 1997, in Minneapolis at the Orpheum Theatre before officially opening on Broadway Nov. 13, 1997, at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The production moved to the Minskoff Theatre [&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":[3,10,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}