Nel 1997, la partitura fu adattata per una versione musical per Broadway, che vinse nel 1998 il Tony Award per la miglior colonna sonora per musical. ###>In 1997, the score was adapted into a Broadway musical version which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1998., the musical version of "The Lion King" is the highest grossing Broadway show of all time, having grossed $853.8 million.