'Lion King' is Broadway's All-Time Box Office King
Very quietly, almost stealthily, a new king has been inaugurated on Broadway. Box office figures released Monday show that "The Lion King" last week swiped the title of Broadway's all-time highest grossing show from "The Phantom of the Opera." The cumulative gross for "The Lion King" is $853,846,062, according to the show's numbers. Its chandelier-swinging rival's cumulative total is $853,122,847, according to the mu…