Aida (musical)

Aida
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.