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Last week Disney's The Lion King opened in South Africa at the new Montecasino Teatro in Johannesburg. Oprah Winfrey attended the star-studded event with 149 students from the girls academy she opened near Johannesburg earlier this year.

Disney's The Lion King opens tonight in South Africa at the new Montecasino Teatro in Johannesburg

Disney's The Lion King will play its 4,000th performance on Broadway on Sunday, May 27 at the 1:00pm matinee.

Preview performances of Disney's The Lion King began last night (Tuesday, May 22) in South Africa at the new, 1850-seat Montecasino Teatro in Johannesburg.

March 16 in Johannesburg, South Africa is the first day of rehearsals for the official 10th anniversary production of Disney's The Lion King

Disney's The Lion King will welcome back Patrick Page to the role of 'Scar' tonight at the Minskoff Theatre.

Disney's The Lion King, celebrating its 10th year of sold out performances, has set a new box office record at the Minskoff Theatre by grossing $1,466,908.67 during the eight-performance week of December 26 - 31, 2006

Thomas Schumacher, President, Disney Theatrical Productions, along with South African licensees Lebo M, international recording artist and co-composer of THE LION KING, and Pieter Toerien, veteran theatre producer, today announced Disney's award-winning musical THE LION KING, will open on June 6, 2007 in Johannesburg.

The long-awaited return engagement of Disney's The Lion King will begin in LA on November 16 for a limited eight-week engagement at the Pantages Theatre, where The Lion King previously had a record-breaking two and a half year run

Disney Theatrical Productions and Madame Tussauds have come together to create life-size wax replicas of 'Rafiki,' the baboon shaman, and 'Scar,' the villainous lion, from the landmark Tony Award-winning production The Lion King.

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron--the producers of the upcoming film version of Hairpray--will bring a movie musical of Peter Pan to the small screen

The Lion King will begin performances at Shanghai's Grand Theatre, July 18th

For the second time in three weeks, The Lion King has set the box office record at its new home at the Minskoff Theatre by grossing $1,225,189 during the week of June 26 - July 2, beating the Minskoff's record for both eight and nine-performance weeks

Disney's The Lion King will surely bring home the lion's share of popularity in the 2006 Philadelphia theater season.

Disney's The Lion King will celebrate its 3,572nd performance at its new home on Broadway, the Minskoff Theatre on June 13th