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Aïda (musical)

Aida
Aida Broadway logo.jpg
Logo from the Broadway Production
Music Elton John
Lyrics Tim Rice
Book Linda Woolverton
Robert Falls
David Henry Hwang
Basis Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
Productions 1998 Atlanta
1999 Chicago
2000 Broadway
2001 Scheveningen, Netherlands
2002 US Tour
2003 Mexico
2003 International Tour
2003 Osaka, Japan
2003 Estonia
2003 Canadian Tour
2004 Essen, Germany
2005 Seoul, Korea
2005 Chicago
2005 Lima, Peru
2005 Israel
2006 Munich, Germany
2006 Switzerland
2006 Fukuoka, Japan
2007 German Tour
2007 Hungary
2007 Nagoya, Japan
2007 Kristianstad, Sweden
2008 São Paulo, Brazil 2009 Tokyo, Japan
2010 Seongnam, Korea
2010 Budapest, Hungary
2010 Chicago
2010 Quebec City
2011 Hong Kong
2011 Manila, Philippines
2011 Guadalajara, Mexico
2012 Seoul, Korea
2012 Prague, Czech Republic
2012 Auburn, Maine
2013 Hobart, Australia
2015 Lima, Peru
2016 Seoul, Korea
Awards Tony Award for Best Score
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

Aida (also known as Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida) is a musical based on the opera of the same name by Giuseppe Verdi. It has music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang, and was originally produced by Walt Disney Theatrical.

Aida premiered on Broadway on March 23, 2000, running for 1,852 performances until September 5, 2004. It was nominated for five Tony Awards and won four including Best Original Score and Best Performance by a Leading Actress, and was also named by Time Magazine as one of the top ten theatre productions of the year.

The Original Broadway Cast Recording won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. A song from the show, "Written in the Stars", recorded by Elton John and LeAnn Rimes, reached No.2 in the Billboard US adult contemporary music charts, and No.1 in the Canadian contemporary charts.

The show is based on Giuseppe Verdi's Italian-language opera of the same name, the libretto of which was written by Antonio Ghislanzoni. The musical originated from a children's storybook version of Verdi's opera written by the soprano Leontyne Price. The book featured illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. In 1994 the book rights were acquired by the Walt Disney Company for a proposed animated feature film. However, Elton John chose not to pursue another animated project after The Lion King so Disney executives suggested a Broadway adaptation instead. Despite his opinion that "opera people can be very elitist", John, along with Tim Rice, immediately signed on.


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