Simba grows up to be a young cub and is tricked by his own jealous uncle Scar, who convinces Simba that he has killed his own father and should run away and “never come back”. The musical tells the story of the main character Simba, who starts as a newborn lion-cub being introduced to his father's animal kingdom as the tribes new prince and future king of the land. Stars like Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen and John Oliver each had a voice role in this version of the film. This movie version was directed by Jon Favreau and used A-listers for the movie’s voice overs. In 2019, The Lion King animated film was converted into a photo-realistic computer animation and followed the exact same storyline. John also worked along with Broadway legends Tim Rice, and Hans Zimmer on the music for the Broadway production, both of whom are also Grammy Award winning musical artists themselves. Sir Elton John was awarded an Academy Award for “Best Original Song” for his song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" in the movie version and was nominated for a Tony Award for “Best Original Musical Score” for his work on the Broadway production.
Sir Elton John Awarded For Lion King Music The best selling singer-songwriter and recording artist from the UK, Sir Elton John, wrote the music for the show because he was also the one who wrote the songs for the original Disney movie in 1994. The book writers were given a Tony Nomination for their work in 1998. The original movie’s writers, Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi, who also wrote Disney films like The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Fantasia, were called back to write the book for this Broadway musical. In 2013 The Lion King beat both Wicked and Phantom of the Opera to become the highest grossing Broadway production of all time and in January 2014 the show became the first Broadway show to gross over the one billion dollar mark in total ticket sales revenue. In 2020 the show was set to perform on tour in Wuhan, China but this tour was cancelled due to the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus. The musical has now been performed in over 25 different countries on every single continent, except for Antarctica. The Lion King musical production has toured all around the world and has been translated into many languages including Chinese, German, Japanese and Spanish.
The Broadway production began performing at the end of 1997 in the New Amsterdam Theatre, since then, the production has moved to the much larger, Minskoff Theatre which the show has made its permanent home. The 1994 film was selected by Disney to be made into its own Broadway musical production in 1996, after the films initial box-office success that garnered Disney over $766 million in the first year of the release. The Lion King is a six-time Tony Award winning Broadway musical based on the original hit Walt Disney movie classic film of the same name.
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