Aladdin on Broadway

[Mad Stitch]

Question that could lead to a potential spoiler. How did they work Proud of Your Boy into the show? Did they bring back the character of Aladdin's mother? It was a great song that was cut from the film, I'm glad to see they were able to use it in the show.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Question that could lead to a potential spoiler. How did they work Proud of Your Boy into the show? Did they bring back the character of Aladdin's mother? It was a great song that was cut from the film, I'm glad to see they were able to use it in the show.

No mother, he sings it to the audience early in the show and it has some reprises. It's meant to be Aladdin's "theme" but without any kind of developed mother relationship it feels a bit forced.

 

[A1st]

No mother, he sings it to the audience early in the show and it has some reprises. It's meant to be Aladdin's "theme" but without any kind of developed mother relationship it feels a bit forced.

Correct he sings about how he has to make his deceased mother proud because even though she is no longer with him she is watching him.

 

[Mad Stitch]

Thanks guys, that's what I figured. Is there a soundtrack being released? I have been looking for one but only info I find relates to the DCA show.

 

[A1st]

Thanks guys, that what I figured. Is there a soundtrack being released? I have been looking for one but only info I find relates to the DCA show.

The cast album will be released in May

If you want to pre-order one you can

http://www.broadwayworld.com/articl...ecording-Now-Available-For-Pre-Order-20140226

 

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[Mad Stitch]

I didn't think I'd be seeing this unless it went on tour, but now I'm going to NYC for the first time and I have tickets to the show. Can't wait!

 

[RandomPrincess]

Aladdin got 5 Tony nominations this morning including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best original Score, James Monroe Iglehart (Genie) best Featured Actor in a Musical. Although they are reported to be long shots in all categories.

 

[imagineer boy]

It's a shame that a lot of Disney's recent broadway shows have recieved a lot of "meh" receptions.

 

[RonAnnArbor]

Aladdin did not get a "meh" reception -- it got some of the best reviews of the year, and its been one of the top 3 shows in ticket sales since it opened in previews...basically, Disney doesn't need to do anything to advertise this show right now -- its pulling in the local NYC theater going family audience crowd since the only other thing playing (relatively new) is Cinderella...Matilda is certainly not all-family friendly (its more 11 and over), and WIcked is pulling in the 15 - 17 year old crowd in droves...That really leaves only Cinderella and Aladdin as good-fo-any-age musicals, and it is selling amazingly well...it will also play in the theater much longer than Mary Poppins did...

 

[Tony Perkis]

The only Disney show seemingly worth any acclaim has been Newsies.

 

[EricJ]

It's a shame that a lot of Disney's recent broadway shows have recieved a lot of "meh" receptions.

If it hadn't been for that danged Poppins (which was Cameron Mackintosh's baby anyway) and Newsies, Little Mermaid would have shut down the chemical factory.
Disney Theatrical was THAT close to cutting their losses and getting out of the business, except for a few small-scale previews of Sister Act and Leap of Faith they had playing other cities.

Beauty & the Beast cashed in on the movie's reputation during the Broadway blight of the 90's, and Lion King had what was then revolutionary new staging.
But Mermaid and Tarzan basically underlined the problem with "$100 video rentals"--If they change the whole thing for no reason, like Tarzan, the audience is disappointed, and if they do it straight, like Mermaid, what's the point?
Aladdin at DCA was a good musical, made better by the fact that it was free, and in a place where it wasn't competing with other Broadway shows; the commercial stage version had some uphill problems to overcome. But at least it's the stage version of a heterosexual movie, and that's a fresh change on Broadway.

 

[imagineer boy]

I think the biggest problem with TLM Broadway show was that Ariel roller skating across the stage with the dragon tail sticking out her back. It looked so stupid. Couldn't they have her suspended by wires and float around to simulate swimming like the show in TDS?

 

[RandomPrincess]

But at least it's the stage version of a heterosexual movie, and that's a fresh change on Broadway.

Yeah all those homosexual movies invading Broadway this year - Rocky, Bridges of Madison County, Big Fish and Bullets Over Broadway.

 

[EricJ]

I think the biggest problem with TLM Broadway show was that Ariel roller skating across the stage with the dragon tail sticking out her back. It looked so stupid. Couldn't they have her suspended by wires and float around to simulate swimming like the show in TDS?

Even if they could, there'd be NO chance of that happening after Spider-man.

Yeah all those homosexual movies invading Broadway this year - Rocky, Bridges of Madison County, Big Fish and Bullets Over Broadway.

(Well, I'm just hoping "Kinky Boots" was the edge of the cliff...)

 

[DizPlutoFan]

seeing this next week CANT WAIT