Aladdin Coming to Australia

 

Opening Sydney August 2016

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, who also wrote the book. Aladdin premiered at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle July 2001, Other productions of the musical played at the Tuacahn Amphitheatre in Ivins from June – October 2012 and the Muny Theatre in St. Louis from July 513, 2012, Aladdin arrived on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre March 2014, and now also playing  in London.

 

 

Aladdin is a street-urchin who lives in a large and busy town long ago . When Princess Jasmine gets tired of being forced to remain in the palace that overlooks the city, she sneaks out to the marketplace, where she accidentally meets Aladdin. Under the orders of the evil Jafar (the sultan’s advisor), Aladdin is thrown in jail and becomes caught up in Jafar’s plot to rule the land with the aid of a mysterious lamp. Legend has it that only a person who is a “diamond in the rough” can retrieve the lamp from the Cave of Wonders.

Cast

Michael James Scott – Genie
Ainsley Melham – Aladdin

Jasmin –  Arielle Jacobs
Adam Murphy – Jafar
Aljin Abella – Iago
George Henare – Sultan
Adam Jon Fiorentino – Kassim
Troy Sussman – Babkak
Robert Tripolino – Omar
Dean Vince – Standby Jafar/Sultan
Gareth Jacobs – Standy Genie/Babkak

Creative

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