New Amsterdam Theater Tickets

New Amsterdam Theater 214 West 42nd Street New York, NY Capacity: 1,745

One of the oldest theaters on Broadway is the New Amsterdam Theater, which first opened in 1903 and was later home to the original Ziegfeld Follies. The theater has recently enjoyed a resurgence thanks to the The Lion King, which is now in its eighth year. The Lion King won six Tony Awards in 1998, including Best Musical and Best Director for Julie Taymor. Gotickets is the best source for Broadway show tickets and New Amsterdam Theater tickets.

With music by Elton John, The Lion King has proven to be much more than just a family musical with countless awards and superb reviews from The New York Times, USA Today, TIME and Newsweek. The large cast includes many seasoned Broadway veterans like Derek Smith, Alton Fitzgerald White, Tshidi Manye and Tom Alan Robbins. If you want to see The Lion King, then you want to get your Broadway show tickets from Gotickets.

While the New Amsterdam Theater is going strong now thanks to The Lion King, that wasn’t always the case. After a strong run in the early part of the 1900s, the theater went dormant for decades and fell into disrepair. In the 1990s, the Walt Disney Company purchased the theater and embarked on an ambitions restoration project. It paid off in spades with an impressive venue with historical charm and one of the biggest hits in the last decade.

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