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Highest Grossing Musical Theater Production?

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Obviously, most people don't have the money to go see every single Broadway show that has ever made it to that street, but, considering I've only been to one of those shows, I'm fortunate enough to have been able to go to the most popular and highest grossing show, The Lion King. This is Broadway's photo, not mine, this is what the cover of the program looks like Since this is a blog about reading and writing, the concept I'm going to be exploring is, what about the lyrics in the songs and dialogue of The Lion King make it so appealing to the listeners and the viewers? Of course, the tale of The Lion King had become vastly popular after Disney's release of the movie and it is now considered to be the best Disney movie of all time, that obviously contributed to the amount of viewers of the musical. But we are going to go way back to the movie's roots. According to Wikipedia's article on the Lion King , the story had actually been the first Disney...

This Week's Theme is... Plays!

I know what you are thinking, aren't most famous plays written by Shakespeare? Well, kind of, but my on line Wheel of Decisions says that we should to plays this week, so here we go... Just warning you, this might spiral into best musicals ever made. And I mean might as in will.