Why is the Lion King the highest grossing musical of all times?

>>212062599 (OP)
Because Disney Adults AKA the millennial manchildren generation is one of the most gullible and lucrative markets ever. Dangle a bit of nostalgia in front of a millennial's face and watch how quickly he pulls out his credit card.

huh, i didn't know phantom finally closed, that's a bit surprising to me

>>212063017
I know right. Also where the fuck is Cats?

>>212062949
Anon, the musical started in 1997

>>212063071
I could believe Cats is only a mid-tier performer in New York, it may have invented the modern musical production but it did it primarily in Londond. And Japan, I guess

>>212063125
It was the longest running broadway show.

>>212063489
lmao no, hard mogged by Phantom

>>212063489
Yeah fair enough, it's probably just inflation. It's run ended 25 years ago, and it's only had one year long revival since then

>>212063561
phantom hard mogs everything for production runs, but it did hold the record for six years

Why are all those movies marked as deceased?

hmm

What is anon's favorite musical?
For me, it's Hadestown.

>>212065733
idk anymore, in high school it was Sweet Smell of Success, but i tried listening to it again a few years ago and couldn't get into it at all. maybe Chicago

BIG

>>212065733
For current shows, Hadestown is best overall show. Orville Peck in Cabaret is amazing but show is overall not as good as Hadestown

>>212067203
BLACK

>>212067714
LION

>>212068016
King

>The Lion King is a stage musical with music by Elton John

if you are a man and like or watch musicals you are a fucking retard gay

>>212068845
at least i'm fucking

but if les mis closed in 2016... what did i watch last year...

>>212062599 (OP)
holy shit Trey Parker and Matt Stone made bank on The Book of Mormon

>>212068960
les diaboliques

>>212068845
At least I'm not an ESL like you esse

>>212069002
i wonder what the margins are on something like that. at that kind of gross it hardly matters, but i assume musicals are pretty expensive to run

>>212068960
Less Miserables

>>212062949
Zoomer nostalgia:
>man adult swim sure got good right around 2017
>remember when Comedy Central played the office 20 times into family guy 50 times
>I prefer aliens: titan andronicus to aliens:pumpernickel
Doomed gen. Cursed gen.

yeah

>>212069002
Probably the most surprising one on that list.

>>212062599 (OP)
I dont get broadway productions, what's the point for closing something like phantom that's been running for 30+ years? Just to give some time to hype up interest for the inevitable revival?

>>212071627
phantom was a really expensive one, i think, it might have legitimately just come to the point where the ticket sales didn't quite justify it over trying something else in the space. there are only so many theaters on broadway

>>212071302
i'm mostly just surprised that not one of them is Sondheim

dasryte

>>212062599 (OP)
1) a lot of performances. 2) it’s accessible. People go to New York, say they want to see a broadway musical even though one or both spouses has never seen a musical before. Lion King? Sure I know that. Let’s see that over the other one that I have never heard of.

>>212062599 (OP)
Because it has the best songs

The Lion ''We didn't even know the existence of Kimba the White Lion'' King