6/13/2023 0 Comments Aladin broadway![]() ![]() The Genie welcomes the audience to the middle-eastern city of Agrabah. It opened on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 20, 2014, to mostly warm reviews and was nominated for five Tony Awards and took home one. After several regional and international productions in 2012, the musical was given a Toronto tryout in 2013. However, the anglicisation of Aladdin and Jasmine drew attention to Disney’s lack of authentic representation of ethnically diverse characters.Īladdin premiered at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle in 2011. The animated version was celebrated as Disney’s first to feature non-white protagonists. Set in the fictional Arabian city of Agrabah, the characters and setting are Middle Eastern. ![]() The story follows the familiar tale of a poor young man who is granted three wishes by a genie in a lamp, which he uses to woo a princess and to thwart the sultan's evil Grand Vizier. The musical includes three songs written for the film by Ashman but not used there and four new songs written by Menken and Beguelin. Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musicalĭrama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Aladdin is a musical based on the 1992 Disney animated film of the same name with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin. ![]()
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