On Broadway, its three musicals have earned a collective 12 Tony Awards® and now garner nearly 25 percent market share of the New York theatrical box office. In 2002, the group's four U.S. national touring productions will reach audiences in more than 45 domestic markets outside New York City.

This year, the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast
surpassed 3,000 performances, earning its place on the list of the
10 longest-running musicals in Broadway history. In addition to Broadway, the U.S. national tour, and Madrid, the first international tour of Beauty and the Beast was launched in November in Liverpool, England.

The Lion King continues sell-out runs in New York, Tokyo, London, Toronto, Los Angeles and Fukuoka. A new production opened in Hamburg in December, and a U.S. national tour will launch in Denver in April 2002.

Throughout 2001, AIDA consistently ranked in the top three Broadway shows in revenues. In addition to the U.S. national tour of AIDA that launched in Minneapolis in March 2001, a new production opened near Amsterdam in October.

Disney's Der Glokner von Notre Dame continued a successful run into its third year and is now the longest-running musical in Berlin's history. An English-language film of the stage production is in development for ABC's Wonderful World of Disney, as well as a national tour.

The Theatrical Group's Family Entertainment and Events division
presented Disney on Ice in 187 cities last year, performing for more than 8 million guests worldwide. Disney on Ice is licensed to Feld Entertainment, with eight productions touring the globe simultaneously. Highlights for next year include a centennial celebration of Walt Disney's birth, with a special showing of Disney on Ice's 100 Years of Magic in Hong Kong; and the launch of the newest production, Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 2 on Ice, in the U.S.