The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (play) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (play) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is an American dramatization of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis, the British children's novel that inaugurated "The Chronicles of Narnia" in 1950. The one-act play for two actors was written by Le Clanché du Rand and published in 1989 by Dramatic Publishing of Woodstock, Illinois. It is licensed by Dramatic to theaters worldwide. One production opened in 2011 Off-Broadway in New York City. The play is currently running Off-Broadway at St. Luke's Theatre in New York City. The production is
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the rest of Europe. Worldwide, "Narnia" earned $745,013,115 marking it the 55th highest-grossing film of all-time worldwide. It had a worldwide opening of $107.1 million, marking Disney's fifth largest opening worldwide (at the time it was the largest). It is the third-largest movie worldwide among those released in 2005 and it currently still remains the highest-grossing movie of the "Narnia" franchise worldwide, and separately in North America and overseas. Finally, it is also the most successful film of Walden Media worldwide. The film opened with $23,006,856 in 3,616 theatres on its opening day (Friday, December 9, 2005), averaging $6,363