The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- November 13, 1997
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 10,000
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Amsterdam Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 1st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Other stagings of The Lion King 2 more that season
| 1999 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2002 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it306 named
Eugene Barry Hill
Camille M Brown
Iresol Cardona
Mark Allan Davis
Ntomb Khona Dlamini
Lana Gordon
Lindiwe Hlengwa
Timothy Hunter
Vanessa A Jones
Michael Joy
Faca Kulu
Ron Kunene
Philip Dorian Mcadoo
Sam Mckelton
Nandi Morake
S Bu Ngema
Karine Plantadit Bageot
Levensky Smith
Ashi K Smythe
Endalyn Taylor Shellman
Christine Yasunaga
Fred Berman
Ben Jeffrey
Pearl Khwezi
Mduduzi Madela
Ntsepa Pitjeng Molebatsi
Cameron Pow
L Steven Taylor
James Brown Orleans
Robb Sapp
Antonia Raye
Zaki A Jani Marshall
Ezekiel Andrew
Zinhle Dube
Bongi Duma
Shawn Alynda Fisher
Paige Fraser Hoffman
Michael Alexander Henry
Amanda Kunene
Daphne Marcelle Lee
Jaysin Mccollum
Ray Mercer
Jamaris Mitchell
Sihle Ngema
Nhlanhla Ngobeni
Nteliseng Nkhela
Jeremy Noel
Tatiana Nunez
Dylan Santos
Kaylin Seckel
James Vessell
Tshidi Manye
Don Donohue
Felipe Abrigo
Michelle Aguilar Camaya
Caleb Archer
Damian Baldet
Kyle R Banks
Mykel Bath
Don Bellamy
Keith Robert Bennett
Kristina Michelle Bethel
Bob Bouchard
John E Brady
Kylin Brady
Terron Brooks
C C Brown
Benjamin Sterling Cannon
Lamae Caparas
Leovina Charles
Eric L Christian
Jeremy Chu
Latrisa A Coleman
Tiana Coles
Curtiss I Cook
E. Clayton Cornelious
Bashirrah Creswell
Gabriel A Croom
Bobby Daye
Alex de Castro
Ruben L Delvalle Jr
Nomvula Dlamini
Michelle Dorant
Robert Dorfman
Leslie Elliard
Danny Fetter
Ramon Flowers
Christopher Freeman
Tony Freeman
Andrea Frierson Toney
Ian Yuri Gardner
Renee Elise Goldsberry
Jean Michelle Grier
Natalie Guerrero
Timothy Gulan
Jeff Gurner
Rajonie Hammond
Rod Harrelson
Netousha N Harris
Michael A Henry
Tom Hewitt
Jacquelyn Hodges
Charles Holt
Tra Lynn Husbands
Meena T Jahi
Ashley Renee Jordan
Leonard Joseph
Joel Karie
Keswa
Martin Kildare
Gregory A King
Nkosi Kress
Lisa Lewis
Nikki Long
Brian M Love
Anthony Manough
Brandon Louis Matthieus
Tristin Mays
Sheryl Mccallum
Ian Vincent Mcginnis
Sinclair Mitchell
Isio Maya Nuwere
Patrick Page
Evan Dexter Parke
Imani Parks
Dawn Noel Pignuola
Jordan Puryear
Cinda Ramseur
Mary Randle
Sabrina Reitman
Angelo Rivera
Mpume Sikakane
Marlayna Sims
Jarrell J Singleton
Jeff Skowron
Derek Smith
Keena Smith
Adam Stein
Sophia N Stephens
Jeremiah Tatum
Josh Tower
Shonte Walker
Nayo K Wallace
Thom Christopher Warren
Steven Evan Washington
Rema Webb
Alton Fitzgerald White
Denise Marie Williams
Kenny Redell Williams
Leonard Wooldridge
Valencia Yearwood
Sharon L Young
Zulu Lava
Jesus del Orden
Bradley Gibson
Vincent Jamal Hooper
Jeffrey Kuhn
Nick Lamedica
Ben Lipitz
Chinua Baraka Payne
Jelani Remy
Chantel Riley
Gareth Saxe
Blakely Slaybaugh
Dashaun Young
Layla Capers
Austin Elle Fisher
Suri Marrero
Justin Martin
Aliya Jo Ramey
Demi Singleton
Jayden Theophile
Julius Raymond Weems Iv
Syndee Winters
Lawrence Alexander
Lawrence Keith Alexander
Sandy Alvarez
Bob Amaral
Chondra Profit Ardrey
Mykal Ashlee
Nia Ashleigh
Guy V Barfield Ii
Lamar Baylor
Shaylin Becton
Judah Bellamy
Sant Gria Bello
Allison Blackwell
India Bolds
Bobbi Bordley
Elishah Bowman
Patrick R Brown
Russell Joel Brown
India Bolds Browne
Khail Toi Bryant
Cole Bullock
Ta'Rea Campbell
Grace Capeless
Rodrick Covington
Alvin Crawford
Robert Creighton
Derrick Davis
Charity de Loera
Gugwana Dlamini
Trista Dollison
Gilbert Domally
Alonie Dowden
Eden Duncan Smith
Rosie Lani Fiedelman
Alicia Fisher
Niles Fitch
Daniel Gaymon
Mukelisiwe Goba
Andile Gumbi
Pia Hamilton
Blake Hammond
Jamal Lee Harris
Collin Heyward
Marquise Hitchcock
Jacquelyn Renae Hodges
Lindsey Holmes
Christine Horn
Nia Imani Hunter
Zach Law Ingram
Julian Ivey
K Lynn Jackman
Andre Jackson
Joshua J Jackson
Lindsey Jolyn Jackson
Adam Jacobs
Derek Johnson
Nicole Adell Johnson
Alphonso Romero Jones Ii
Andrea Jones
Jaden Jordan
Aubrey Omari Joseph
Shahadi Wright Joseph
Charlaine Katsuyoshi
Nokubonga Khuzwayo
Joshua Landay
Kimberly Marable
Shavar Mcintosh
Nathaniel Mcintyre
Caleb Mclaughlin
Brenda Mhlongo
Jade Milan
Kyle Lamar Mitchell
Geoff Myers
Nhlanhla Ndlovu
Isaiah D Negron
Aaron Nelson
Albertina Nkhela
Selloane A Nkhela
Clifton Oliver
Esteban Oliver
Chondra la Tease Profit
Natalie Ridley
Devin Roberts
Arbender J Robinson
Rhea Roderick
India Scandrick
Chauntee Schuler
Housso Semon
Laquet Sharnell
Julian Silva
Imani Dia Smith
Nicole Smith
Wallace Smith
Vusi Sondiyazi
Thandazile A Soni
Nathaniel Stampley
Jerome Stephens Jr
Michael Stiggers Jr
Shannon Tavarez
Teshi Thomas
Thulisile Thusi
Nickayla Tucker
Phillip W Turner
Halle Vargas Sullivan
Donna Michelle Vaughn
Jason Veasey
Zurin Villanueva
Tryphena Wade
Kaci Walfall
Nicholas Ward
Jahi Diallo Winston
Camille Workman
Kyle Wrentz
Buyi Zama
35 of these 306 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 271 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Julie Taymor
- Choreographer
- Garth Fagan
- Producer
- Disney
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 6 from 11 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
Julie Taymor was the first woman to win the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical. The show has grossed over $1 billion on Broadway alone.
- Ragtime lost Christopher Plummer, Colm Wilkinson, Elaine Stritch, to The Lion King for the Best Musical Tony Award. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 19
- Tony Award nominee Tsidii Le Loka as Rafiki in The Lion King (1997). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 36
- Tim Rice {Evita, The Lion King, Aidd) was introduced to Broadway with this show. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 314
- With the theater’s operations in place, Disney opened their second theatrical venture, The Lion King, on November 13, 1997. An adaptation of their popular animated hit, Disney hired songwriters Elton John and Tim Rice to expand the cartoon’s score. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 402
- Today we're lucky to have the Disney musicals The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast bringing in thousands of new theatregoers. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 267
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for The Lion King at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.