ALADDIN BROADWAY... Make way for Disney's new musical comedy!

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The New Disney Blockbuster [Aladdin] has arrived on Broadway, and audiences and critics agree: this show's a hit! 

The producers of The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Newsies have brought the beloved story of Aladdin to thrilling theatrical life in this bold new musical comedy that The Huffington Post calls, "One of the most delirious things of its kind in years!" Filled with daring adventure, classic comedy and timeless romance, ALADDIN is "fabulous" and "extravagant," says The New York Times.

ALADDIN features all your favorite songs from the film as well as new music written by Tony and Academy Award winner Alan Menken with lyrics penned by the legendary Howard Ashman (Beauty and the Beast), and Tony Award winner Tim Rice (The Lion King, Aida). 


The Disney musical Aladdin, which currently plays Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre, makes three national television appearances on the ABC network April 15.


Following a first-look preview on "Good Morning America" April 14, the April 15 appearances include a performance of "Arabian Nights" on "Good Morning America" (broadcast live from the stage of the New Amsterdam); a performance of "Prince Ali" on "The View"; and interviews (conducted by Elizabeth Vargas) with director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw and stars Adam Jacobs, James Monroe Iglehart,Courtney Reed and Jonathan Freeman on "Nightline."

James Monroe Iglehart who plays the Genie
from Disney's new Broadway musical,
an adaptation of its film Aladdin,
pauses during rehearsals in New York.
For Iglehart, a self-confessed "Disney nerd" who has dreamed of playing Genie on stage since first seeing the movie at 17, the story has evolved chiefly in "how funny it is, and how much heart there is in it. Genie has always been funny, but in the show more actors get to show their comic chops." Iglehart adds that while the movie was "a great adventure story," the show emphasizes relationships between the characters, in ways that will appeal to kids and adults alike. Reed agrees: "It's a romance," between Aladdin and Jasmine, "and a bromance," between Aladdin and Genie.


Aladdin stars Adam Jacobs, Courtney Reed, and James Monroe Iglehart
Reed, who identifies herself as of "mixed ethnicity," treasured the film "as a little girl who watched all the Disney princess movies," because Jasmine "was the first princess who looked like me, with this long dark hair and olive skin tone."
Jacobs, born to a Filipina mother and "a Russian/Dutch/Polish/Jewish father," and raised Catholic, notes that "a lot of people in this company" come from similarly eclectic backgrounds. And Aladdin offers a lesson, he adds, that should resonate for all of them.
Hailed by Newsday as "an awesome throwback to old-time musical comedy," it is directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon), with book and additional lyrics by Chad Beguelin (The Wedding Singer). ALADDIN also boasts an incomparable design team, with sets, costumes and lighting from Tony Award winners Bob Crowley (Mary Poppins), Greg Barned (The Drowsy Chaperone), and Natasha Katz (Once). 



With exhilarating choreography, show-stopping performances and astonishing visual effects, ALADDIN is, as NBC-TV declares, "Exactly what you wished for!"

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