The Lion King is known as “The World’s #1 Musical” for good reason.
The Lion King engagement broke two records at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts.
The award winning musical set the record for the highest grossing week ever, with a gross of over $1.9 million, and the highest one week attendance, with 23,040 guests.
The two-week run of The Lion King was from Feb. 23 to March 6 and grossed over $3.6 million, with nearly 46,000 theater goers during the 16 performances.
Of course, people coming to see The Lion King also spent money other than just for tickets and it is estimated that the economic benefit of the two-week run for the City of Greensboro was nearly $12 million in travel, hotel, restaurants, parking and other businesses patronized by both theater goers and the production staff. The figure is based on a Touring Broadway League report, which found that, on average, Broadway tours contribute an economic impact of 3.27 times the gross ticket sales.
In a press release, Matt Brown, managing director of the Greensboro Coliseum Complex and the Tanger Center, said, “The spectacular success of Disney’s The Lion King has been a highlight of our extraordinary inaugural Broadway season at Tanger Center. We have been thrilled to host two weeks of sold-out crowds that have been absolutely blown away by this amazing production.”
Vice President of Domestic Touring & Regional Engagements for Disney Theatrical Productions Jack Eldon said, “We were so pleased to bring The Lion King to the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts and to share the experience of this groundbreaking production with audiences in Greensboro. We are overwhelmed by the community’s response and thank our partners at The Tanger Center, Nederlander and Professional Facilities Management (PFM) for a sensational engagement. We look forward to returning to the Piedmont Triad Region.”
Love the new Tanger center! Great investment for Greensboro! Already have been to 2 shows there and have tickets for a show there this Thursday. And this time…no mask mandate!
Statistics from” Touring Broadway League” report and Matt Brown would never overstate estimates. ….no profit in pumping up magical impact reports. ….oh wait there is plenty of profit on the backs of Greensboro tax payers and residents that can’t afford to live in safe neighborhoods with low Crime, non crumbling roads and sewer systems or have access to fresh foods but their leaders and supporters can fiddle while Rome is burning. Mandate Mayors version of “let them eat cake!”
If Greensboro is Rome burning, then Rome would still be standing. Tanger is proving to be profitable to the tax payers by brining in more tax income downtown, being attractive to potential future residents for entertainment value, etc… Rome burning? What a joke.
Just wait until the bill comes due to pay for it then tell us how much you love it.
Hear, here!
The Lion King was awesome, glad to see the Arts in Greensboro being a success. East Greensboro near NCAT and E. Gate Blvd is about to come up as well. Grocery Stores/Apts across the House of Prayer and E. Gate Blvd, new shopping and Apts near E. Market St and Benbow Rd for NCAT. Publix Distrub will hire about 1100 workers in E. Greensboro. Several roads improvements. New Hospital near Battleground just opened. 1100 new single family homes near the new Publix about to be built. Toyota Battery Plant and Boom Industries!!! No excuses for not finding a job. I know tons of folks moving down from NJ, NY, PENN, MARYLAND, DC AND SC finding work at my place of work Harris Teeter Distr Ct. We have 1200 workers there. Job Fairs every week.
God PLEASE no more illegals coming down here from north of the Mason-Dixon. They do nothing but bring their rude driving habits, criminal elements, know it all ways and then try to tell us how we should live. PLEASE stay away
Plus a new state of the art Elementary School will be built on the old Peeler Elem School Site in E. Greensboro. Tons of new road projects are planned throughout GBO. So it not like the Mayor or City Council haven’t thought about other areas of Gbo. Police is trying to recruit more Officers as well. The city can walk and crew gum at the same time by building up the Downtown and other areas of Gbo
What if I told you the crew who worked 15 and even 20 hour days to make it happen are being paid less than an employee at Target?
This for an incredibly stressful and dangerous job.
While the execs roll in money.
Of the main venues in NC Tanger crew are paid the least. As a whole NC runs behind most other states.
Let’s do that story.
“I’ve never seen one that big!”
That’s what she said!