Broadway’s Award-Winning Best Musical comes to Rochester’s Auditorium Theater

Disney's "The Lion King"

The traveling cast of Disney's "The Lion King", winner of more that 70 awards worldwide, will be coming to Rochester, New York this coming Spring.  Awards Disney's "The Lion King" have won include Tony Award® for Best Musical and the Grammy® for Best Musical Show Album The performance will be at the Auditorium Theatre owned and operated by the Rochester Broadway Theatre League.  Opening night is March 22 and closes on April 17.  So there are plenty of opportunities to see a once in a lifetime performance.  

Disney’s “The Lion King” is based on the life of a young lion prince, Simba who runs away from home after his uncle, Scar, convinces him that he is the cause of his father’s death. Animal characters are brought to life by unique costumes that combine body paint, masks that look like animals, giant stilts, and puppets that are moved by actors positioned behind them. 

Newsweek has deemed “The Lion King” a “landmark event in entertainment” which will include hit songs from Elton John and Tim Rice such as “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” and “Circle of Life.”  

Disney’s “The Lion King” is presented by the 2010 – 2011 M&T Bank Broadway Season.  

Times and dates are as follows:

3/22 – 7:30pm

3/23 – 7:30pm

3/24 – 7:30pm

3/25 – 8:00pm

3/26 – 2:00pm & 8:00pm

3/27 – 2:00pm & 6:30pm

3/29 – 7:30pm

3/30 – 7:30pm

3/31 – 7:30pm

4/1 – 8:00pm

4/2 – 2:00pm & 8:00pm 

4/3 – 2:00pm & 6:30pm

4/5 – 7:30pm

4/6 – 7:30pm

4/7 – 7:30pm

4/8 – 8:00pm

4/9 – 2:00pm & 8:00pm

4/10 – 2:00pm & 6:30pm

4/12 – 7:30pm

4/13 – 7:30pm

4/14 – 1:00pm & 7:30pm

4/15 – 8:00pm

4/16 – 2:00pm & 8:00pm

4/17 – 1:00pm & 6:30pm

Prices are relatively inexpensive beginning at  $22.50 continuing until $132.50. To buy your tickets to one of Broadway's best go to ticketmaster.

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Links:

http://www.rbtl.org/

http://www.rbtl.org/location-directions-and-parking.aspx

http://www.ticketmaster.com/venueartist/164/820969

http://disney.go.com/theatre/thelionking/#/home/