Canada Will Hear Lion King Roar in March 2000 in Toronto | Playbill". Playbill . Retrieved 2018-09-23.

First international tour of Disney's The Lion King premieres in Manila". Broadway World. March 30, 2018. Wolf, Matt. "Review: The Lion King (Lyceum Theater)", Variety, October 25, 1999, accessed October 16, 2015.Of all the show's productions (counting the English ones), only the Brazilian and the Korean ones didn't have cast recordings released.

The Lion King Will Make Its Debut in Ireland in 2013". Playbill. Oct 25, 2012 . Retrieved Mar 22, 2021.The musical had a Korean production from October 28, 2006, to October 28, 2007, at the Charlotte Theater in Seoul, where it ran for 330 performances. Lebo M, Tsidii LeLoka, Willi Welp and Gustavo Vaz were the only actors who were performers and directors of the show. Lebo M was the composer of various of the show's songs and performed on Broadway (1997–2000), Willi Welp performed as Scar from 2005 to 2015 and then left to be the resident director of the show's German production and Gustavo was the resident director of the show's Brazilian production at the same time he was a Scar and Pumbaa standby. Original Broadway Rafiki Tsidi LeLoka was also part of the show's creative team, as she's the one responsible for adding Rafiki's chants to the story and writing her mourning song. Robert Elhai, David Metzger and Bruce Fowler orchestrated the original Broadway production for 23 players, including: [82] 1 wood flute soloist/flute/piccolo, 1 concertmistress, 2 violin, 1 violin/viola, 2 celli, 1 flute/clarinet/bass clarinet, 3 French horns, 1 trombone, 1 bass trombone/tuba, 1 bass player (playing both contrabass and electric bass), 1 drum player, 1 guitar, 2 mallets/percussion players, 2 percussion players (both of them at the sides of the stage) and 3 keyboard synthesizers.

Gans, Andrew. " The Lion King Is Now Top-Earner in Box-Office History", Playbill, September 22, 2014. Ntomb'Khona Dlamini is the actress who served as an understudy or ensemble member for the longest time. She was in the original Broadway company as an understudy to Tsidi LeLoka. After leaving for a brief time between 2000 and 2001, she went on to perform in the American tours. Summing up all this time, she's been in the show for more than 15 years, finally leaving the company in 2013.Steven., Suskin (2011). The sound of Broadway music: a book of orchestrators and orchestrations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.595. ISBN 978-0199790845. OCLC 700406779.

Portia Manyike is the only actress to perform in three languages, though she was never promoted to leading cast member. She's been part of the ensemble in France, Brazil and Mexico. a b "Cumulative Broadway Grosses by Show". Broadway World. Archived from the original on January 11, 2014 . Retrieved February 9, 2014. Andrew Gans (March 11, 2009). "Sesma, White, Williams, Zama and Simmons Cast in Las Vegas Lion King". Playbill. Archived from the original on March 15, 2009. Rafiki's chants in "Rafiki Mourns" were written by Tsidii Le Loka, who originated the role on Broadway.After the success of the Broadway show, the show opened in the United Kingdom in on October 19, 1999. The cast included Cornell John as Mufasa, Luke Youngblood as Young Simba, Dominique Moore as Young Nala, Martyn Ellis as Pumbaa, Simon Gregor as Timon, Rob Edwards as Scar, Paul J. Medford as Banzai and Josette Bushell-Mingo as Rafiki. [40] [41] As of October 2019, it has been playing at the Lyceum Theatre in London for 20 years. Taymor directed the British production of the show, with Melissa De Melo as the producer. The show also toured the UK from 2012 until March 2015. [42] London; Lyceum Theatre Phindile Mkhize and Ntsepa Ptjeng are the only actresses who performed as leads in the three languages the musical's been performed in. Phindile performed in English (American tour and Las Vegas, 2002–2010), Spanish (from 2012 to 2013) and Portuguese (2013); while Ntsepa was leading in Brazil (2014, as a substitute to Phindile), Basel (2015) and Shanghai (2016).