‘Lion King’ Opens in Vegas

The Broadway masterpiece The Lion King has been burning up the musical scene for quite a while now, and last weekend the show made its Las Vegas premiere at Mandalay Bay Theatre, becoming the eighth run of The Lion King to currently run on stages worldwide. The Lion King at Sin City’s casino and hotel Mandalay Bay is the latest addition to jump aboard the Lion King circuit, as the musical is also playing in New York, London, Hamburg, Paris, Tokyo and Fukuoka, as well as on the North American National Tour.

Thomas Schumacher, producer and president of Disney Theatrical Group, recently spoke of the production’s Las Vegas inception, saying, “The Las Vegas production is every bit the equal of the spectacular Broadway experience. From the stunning procession of animals that fill the aisles during the ‘Circle of Life’ and the wildebeest stampede to the show’s climactic battle, all of the magic of the original vision will be realized onstage at Mandalay Bay.”

The Lion King at Minskoff Theatre continues to be one of the top-grossing Broadway productions on the scene, raking in $1,058,942 last week (May 11 - May 17), only falling short of the musicals Wicked, West Side Story and Billy Elliot.

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