Lion King the musical returns to Birmingham after a decade
Disney's The Lion King will play at Birmingham Hippodrome for 10 weeks next summer.
The Walt Disney Company UK and Ireland and Birmingham Hippodrome have announced that Disney’s The Lion King will return to the Hippodrome next summer.
The internationally acclaimed production will come to Birmingham for 10 weeks from Thursday 6 July to Saturday 16 September 2023.
The show returns to Birmingham for the first time since 2013, when it enjoyed a triumphant sell out run.
Birmingham Hippodrome Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer, Jon Gilchrist said: “We’re absolutely thrilled to welcome The Lion King to Birmingham Hippodrome for an amazing ten week run next Summer. It’s such an iconic production and we’re really proud that we can bring this internationally renowned show to the West Midlands as part of our stellar season next year.”
The stage adaptation of The Lion King opened on Broadway in 1997 and 25 global productions in nine different languages have been created since then (English, Japanese, German, Korean, French, Dutch, Spanish, Mandarin and Portuguese).
The previous tour of The Lion King broke attendance records across the nation. Since the UK premiere in 1999, The Lion Kind London has entertained more than 16 million theatregoers and is the sixth longest-running West End musical of all time.
Tickets go on general sale on Friday 14 October at 11am.