Highest Grossing Musical Theater Production?
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.
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 movie to be an original story supposedly a mash up of the stories of Joseph and Moses from the Torah/Bible, which ever one you prefer, and also WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET!!!!!
This is totally a coincidence but I'm really excited that this links to last week's theme Shakespeare. At first, it didn't really make sense how The Lion King is like Hamlet but it does have some major similarities. I guess that explains the evil uncle and the dead father, but Simba doesn't end up dying like Hamlet, so I guess that's probably because the show is going off of Disney.
Anyway, that reveals one of the reasons The Lion King is one of the most successful plays on Broadway not because all the songs are really catchy, the Disney movie should be a national treasure, but because who could compete with Shakespeare or the Bible?
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| 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 movie to be an original story supposedly a mash up of the stories of Joseph and Moses from the Torah/Bible, which ever one you prefer, and also WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET!!!!!
This is totally a coincidence but I'm really excited that this links to last week's theme Shakespeare. At first, it didn't really make sense how The Lion King is like Hamlet but it does have some major similarities. I guess that explains the evil uncle and the dead father, but Simba doesn't end up dying like Hamlet, so I guess that's probably because the show is going off of Disney.
Anyway, that reveals one of the reasons The Lion King is one of the most successful plays on Broadway not because all the songs are really catchy, the Disney movie should be a national treasure, but because who could compete with Shakespeare or the Bible?
Good job!
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