Alone. When it comes to finding the very best deals on everything from smartphones to cameras to toys, the answer may be only an app away. Abcs Sharyn Alfonsi brings us the new tricks to saving big for our series, easy money. Reporter meet the perillo family. Three sisters in constant motion. It doesnt leave a lot of time for working parents, like sarah and chris perillo, to do a lot of holiday shopping. We look for online free shipping. Anything we can do to avoid the malls and bring three kids to the malls. Reporter increasingly, families like the perillos who struggle to find time to shop and the best deals are turning to the internet. This year, for the first time, more than half of us will shop online, spending 226 billion. In the true spirit of the season, we decided to bring them some hightech help. Nice to meet you. Joanna stern is abcs tech editor. She showed us how to outsmart the stores to get great deals. On the perillos list, a flatscreen tv and digital camera. We start looking. Is that really the price . Is it was this price this morning . Reporter we were surprised to learn that prices online fluctuate from daytoday and hourtohour. Watch in sony camera. The price dropped three times, 50, over the course of just 12 hours. When should you pull the trigger and buy . Tip number one, arm yourself with apps. At the store, we see a digital camera we were looking at. We want a step up. Reporter and pull out our decide app. It scans the bar code, searching through thousands of pieces of information, to tell us whether we should buy it now or wait and get a better price later. It tells us to wait. But what about the samsung tv, on sale for 648. It says buy. So, sarah does. On the toy aisle, we saw bouncing tigger. Its at the top of the girls list. Thats not going to make you crazy . It definitely will. Reporter it was 39. 99 at target, marked down to 28. 99. Click to compare. Using another app, called red laser, we scan the bar code and find it cheaper. Target will match online pricing this year, so we get it for 21. Know the trends. And those who analyze them, say unless youre trying to scoop up a hotselling toy, you can steer clear of the toy aisle this black friday. Toys will be at their lowest prices two weeks before christmas. And typically, the best time to buy appliances will be monday. Travel deals tuesday. Julie wednesday. Clothing thursday. But if youre shopping online and dont like the price, tip number four, just walk away. If you put something in your cart and you walk away from it, its playing hard to get. Tell them what you want, walk away. And they might lower the price. Send an email and say, we insided you had this in your cart, heres the 10 discount. Reporter to trick the computer, you may need to put in your credit card number. But dont use it. Its not about clicking on it and going away. We have to go to the very last step before you click place the order . Exactly. Reporter and the discounts keep coming. The perillos saved 390. Proving that you can crack the codes an get great deals. But hiding the gifts, thats still an oldfashioned artform. For nightline, im Sharyn Alfonsi, in connecticut. Thanks to Sharyn Alfonsi for those tips. Next up, after 15 years of breaking records across the globe, we bring you a special look inside, the making of the lion king. First rule of taking the world by surprise . Do something the world will actually notice. Introducing the entirely new ford fusion. With a turbocharged ecoboost engines and a hybrid that doubles the fuel economy of the average vehicle. Its an entirely new idea of what a car can be. Ii invest in what i know. R. I turned 65 last week. Im getting married. Planning a life. There are risks, sure. But, theres no reward without it. I want to be prepared for the long haul. I see a world bursting with opportunities. 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As the lion king celebrates 15 recordshattering years on the great white way, nightlines invited to pull back the curtain and discover the secrets behind the shows phenomenal success. Reporter its the highestgrossing musical of alltime, with profitmaking runs in more than 100 cities around the globe. The lion king brand has earned more than all six star wars films combined. Its hard to believe that at first, most people thought the musical would fail. I said, thats the worst idea ive ever heard. Reporter including the shows wouldbe producer, thomas schumacher. Were going to get yelled at for touching stuff. Reporter unlikely, since toms now the head of disneys theatrical production. I feel like a lioness. He reminisces about arguing with his boss, who was hellbent on making it all work. He said just get a great idea. And i got a great idea. Julie taymor. Reporter at the time, julie taymor was a littleknown theater virtuoso. She had directed operas. But never mainstream broadway. Everybody told us we were crazy to work with julie taymor. The Broadway Community assumed this would be a massive disaster. Reporter but the disney team decided the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. They would reinvent this beloved cartoon for the stage. Julie used every trick in the book. From 17th century stage craft, to african costuming and asian puppetry. The result, a fusion of highart and lowbrow comedy. And this is what you call the double thats the doubleevent. You get the human and the animal. When you want the aggressive nature of the lion, thats when scar will put his head forward. And theres the ability to get very violent. This is the sexiest animal we have. I love the idea that the audience sees the strings. I want them to appreciate the talent of the performer who is moving it. Reporter and to find those performers, julie still scours the globe in search of raw talent. Give him the cue right before scar. Hakuna matata reporter in sao paulo, we get a rare glimpse in a casting production. Brazil is the 60th country to stage a lion king production. After weeks of callbacks, they finally strike gold. Tiago barbosa, a 27yearold plucked from the slums of rio, brings down the house, with simbas most emotional number. Good job. Can we . Hey. Simba. Reporter 15 years into her journey, theres still magic in a discovery like this. Im not sure anybodys ever put it together like that. Not like that . No. Ever. In any place. Reporter and julie taymor is no stranger to magical moments. In 1998, lion king earned six tony awards. Julie became the first woman ever to win best director. She went on to direct movies, including frida. And then, another musical. Spiderman turn off the dark. But it was riddled with stage accidents, money issues. Julie was pushed out of the production before opening night. Shes not talked on camera about the experience until now. You cant blame me. You dont create a musical with one person or two. Reporter her famous partners, u2s bono and the edge, accused her of being too close to the project to see its major flaws. Would you agree with that assessment . I wouldnt. Its hard to create experimental, break ground, try to do something thats never been done, when people are going to secondguess it. The show thats there is the show that i created over eight years, minus some of the deaths. Reporter and after significant retooling, its a show thats become a huge hit on broadway. Julie says thats part to her early vision. Big risk, big reward. Its the lesson she learned from lion king. And as the original creators take the curtain call after sundays 15th anniversary performance, they know all of the pageantry and the stage craft would be meaningless, were it not for a simple story retold. Its our story. Its the story of humanity, told with lions, a meerkat and a flatulent wart hog. Reporter perhaps thats the secret to its success. For nightline, im juju chang in new york. It is a great show, coming to a country near you. Thanks to juju for that. Next up, a vertigoinducing climb to the top of the worlds busiest bridge to hang with the team that made this their 9 00 to 5 00. [ engine revs ] [ male announcer ] oh what fun it is to ride. Get the mercedesbenz on your wish list at the winter event going on now but hurry, the offer ends soon. [ santa ] ho, ho, ho [ male announcer ] lease a 2013 e350 for 579 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Cool. You found it. Wow. Nice place. Yeah. [ chuckles ] the family thinks im out shipping these. Smooth move. You used Priority Mail flat rate boxes. If it fits, it ships for a low, flat rate. Paid for postage online and arranged a free pickup. And im gonna track them online, too. Nice. Between those boxes and this place, im totally staying sane this year. Do i smell snickerdoodles . Maybe. [ timer dings ] got to go. Priority mail flat rate boxes. 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Almost a mile long, towering more than 600 feet high. Suspended over the hudson river. The George Washington bridge is painted by workers balancing and walking, sometimes sliding down the beam. It takes them more than a year and a half just to finish the job. Hardly any journalists have ever been allowed to the top of the bridge. But we were. It is a rare look at life atop this marvel of american engineering. So rare and exclusive, potential bridge painters need to ace a series of tests. And this is the final exam. A large portion of them, when they get to this height, its a better way for them to make a living. Thats the bridge painter test right there. That beam up there. Reporter 90 of them fail that . Some people fail that halfway out. The rest of them fail. They have to move to the next section. Reporter to go any further, we had to take the test and prove we wouldnt panic. This is certainly not for the feint of heart. But for a once upon a time mountain climber, i didnt feel too unsafe. But the real danger is out here, where the barrels of the bridge are round and sloping. And theres no net between us and the 14 lanes of traffic whizzing below. The workers told me none of their colleagues have ever died. Its been nine times that ive actually been scared. But up here, you have to be conscious of where you are. You know, youre crazy. You feel it. But as soon as you lose the fear of being up here, thats when youre in trouble. Reporter there have been some close calls. Have you ever fallen . Never. Reporter did you ever slip . Yes. Reporter obec gonzales has painted three other bridges. This is his first time on this one. Whats the best moment up here . The best moment, probably in the morning when its brightest. Youre just up here by yourself. Its cool. Occasionally, the helicopter will go by, the traffic guy. Reporter theres never been any women on this job. They tease my producer, lana zak, that she was the first to scale these barrels. But gonzales has a daughter who might be a future candidate. She tells everybody what i do. She gets a kick of me being up here. Shows pictures of painting the silver or the gray epoxy. Doesnt matter. Reporter what do your children say . My son, the first thing he looks for is my lanyard. Make sure i have it on. Reporter a smart kid. Look at this place. Its stunningly beautiful. You see the statue of liberty from here. You can look almost all the way up to west point. For all the beauty, there are real safety concerns. Everyone wears two harnesses. Everything is securely attached. Anything that falls could cause a Traffic Accident below. You are never trapped out here . Ive seen a major hurricane blow through. It was a serious situation out here. Reporter when that severe wind barreled through several years ago, the painters were right here on the rig. It came close enough that it grabbed the rig, throwed it up in the air and slammed it down. Reporter despite those dangers, it is a beautiful place up here, a rare view for all of us. Im bob woodruff, for nightline, atop of the George Washington bridge. Wow. Thanks to bob woodruff for that. We have a final news note for you tonight. Despite rising hopes through the day, as of tonight, there is no ceasefire in the conflict gripping the middle east. Israel and hamas, the militant group that governs the gaza strip, they did edge a bit closer to a deal to stop the fighting after days of escalating missile attacks that have the world fearing a fullscale war is about to break out. U. S. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton met with israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu today, as part of this intense diplomatic efforts that are new under way. Hamas, at one point, said a deal had been reached with israel. As of now, the fighting and the dying continues. Good morning america is going to have the latest on that conflict in the morning. And lots of other stories. Thanks for watching abc news. Jimmy kimmels coming up next. Well see you here tomorrow. Up next on an allnew jimmy kimmel live. Heres a black friday shopping tip for you. Find out who is spending three days waiting in line for these