The Lion King as top-grossing Broadway show of 2013 – BBC

The Lion King was announced as the top grossing show at the Broadway theatres during the year 2013. This amazing and awe-inspiring Walt Disney musical took nearly one hundred million US Dollars during the calendar year of 2013. Today this super hit musical is already in its sixteenth year. According to the Broadway Theatres management, the lion king musical is the highest earner for the theatre and it has become the first ever theatrical show at Broadway to exceed one billion US Dollars mark earlier in the year 2014. The Phantom of the Opera, Only Chicago and Cats are the other shows that have run longer in the state New York after the Lion King.

According to the statistics provided by the Broadway theatres, the second largest earning show after the lion king at the Broadway was the Book of Mormon in the year 2013. The book of Mormon took away ninety million US dollars within twelve months. Moreover, the ‘Wicked’ musical which earned 3.2 million US Dollars was another show that grabbed the attention of theatre industry across the US. The success of the lion king musical however remains noteworthy and stays apart from the rest due to its high demand and popularity across the public.

Moreover, the lion king show is being watched by young as well as the old and is one of the musicals that have been rated safe for all kinds of audiences and is appreciated by all alike. The animated film based musical includes sound tracks that have won many awards due to their magnificent and spellbound composition as well as the lyrics. The direction has been done superbly by the Tony award winners. The show has is also running at Sydney Australia since 1999 as well as at the city of London and several other private production houses across the world have also presented the Lion King musical.

A Short Introduction of The Lion King Show

The lion king tickets are on sale for the year 2014 as the show schedule of this great musical has already been announced. The rush of kids as well as adults is to be seen at the theatres across the United States. The great musical is known popular across all kinds of audiences. The lion king musical was first tried out at Minneapolis however was presented at the Broadway theatres officially in the year 1997, three years after the release of the animated cartoon movie by Disney entertainment studios Inc. Just like the movie, the musical rocked the world entertainment industry and even today after nearly a couple of decades, it is on show at the popular theatres across the globe.

The lion king musical tells the story of a lion and his son, the Simba who is born to be the king. Mufasa who is the king of pride Lands is proud and extremely happy at the birth of a son Simba who is going to succeed him as the king of Pride Lands. He is too excited that he cannot wait to be a king. The birth of this baby prince is a shocking news for Mufasa’s step brother Scar who is an evil genius and wants to take up the throne of Pride Lands as soon as possible. The story of lion king musical & movie is the same and there isn’t a minor difference.

As the story goes on, Scar plans on killing Mufasa and Simba to take over their rightful throne. For this purpose, he plots out an evil plain in alliance with the evil hyenas and succeeds in killing Mufasa brutally. Simba has also been attempted to be murdered however he escapes away far to another land where he spends a major part of his life until he gets young and gets ready to take revenge from his uncle Scar.

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