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With a worldwide gross of over $6.2 billion (USD), "The Lion King" stage musical has achieved the most successful box office total of any work in entertainment history.
The show took over the top spot from the $6 billion-earning "The Phantom of the Opera" late this summer.
The total makes "The Lion King" more valuable than any single Harry Potter film, the blockbuster "Titanic," or any of the "Star Wars" movies. By way of comparison, the highest-grossing film in history is "Avatar," with nearly $2.8 billion worldwide.
"The Lion King," which features music by Elton John with lyrics by Tim Rice and the vision of director Julie Taymor, was an adaptation of the animated film when it hit the stage. But it has in many ways overshadowed the film. It tells the story of a young lion cub's coming of age and uses puppetry and dance in ways that haven't been replicated.
Director Julie Taymor said.
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"You do a movie - I don't mean the animated - let's say you did a realistic movie and hadn't done the puppets. You're going to go to the caves and the savants. You got to go to all the real locations. But when you do it in the theater, you have to find a way to represent it, so you got the grasslands and that's how I create the cinematic grass is moving. And you use miniature. What I do in the theater sometimes is highly theatrical cinema."
Looking back on the show's beginning, in four downtown rehearsal rooms in May 1997, Taymor cites bringing the story to the stage as one of her proudest moments.
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"I think 'Lion King' in New York and South Africa, opening it in Johannesburg for an audience that inspired the music and never seen that kind of theater before. They came with their blankets and - the whole thing. The joy of doing that."
It was the highest grossing Broadway show last year and is the highest-grossing production so far this year, despite rival shows in five bigger theaters and musicals like "The Book of Mormon" often charging hundreds of dollars more per ticket.
Part of its longevity is due to its movie tie-in, simple-to-understand story, family friendly themes and the fact that it's a spectacle not dependent on big-name stars. Twenty-two global productions have been seen by more than 75 million people.
"The Lion King" secured the overall box office crown despite "Phantom" having a big head start.
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