1/5/2024 0 Comments Aladin on broadway imageThey do nothing but tell Aladdin how awesome he is and then for about seven seconds tell him he is a douche for lying and then have a stupidly long song where I may have fell into a coma for them just to blindly love him again. Do not include three new characters who serve no point whatsoever and just enrage me to no end. The worst though is Abu, yes it may have been difficult to have a monkey on stage, fine then just cut the entire character out. Carpet had such characterisation despite being a mute character and he was relegated to just furnishings. Carpet does not appear till A Whole New World and is literally a carpet. Raj is replaced by a harem who do nothing but praise Jasmine and have no purpose. I know that the stage is different but puppetry is a thing! Raj and carpet could have been easily accomplished if they had just taken tips from The Lion King. Where the Fuck is Abu, Raj and Carpet?!?! So I may sound like a shrew who finds no joy in anything but that isn’t the case as there were sadly glaring problems with this play. I feel bad as West End Musicals aren’t cheap but me and my Mum always said that if there were things that didn’t impress us then we would say. You still feel that ominous and foreboding feeling that you get from the film. The tiger face was excellent and I think they did well with the limitations of the stage. I cannot fault the actual cave as it was very well done. He absolutely smashes his designated songs and thank goodness as they are the best! The essence of Robin William’s Genie is there and is celebrated but the actor truly makes this role his own. It would not have worked if they tried to copy that style completely. It was a wise decision to go with that as I don’t think many people would appreciate a knock off version that looks like they are ripping off Williams, as after all most of Genie’s jokes were adlibbed in the film due to Williams’ comedic prowess. The Genie made the role his own rather than be an imitation Robin Williams. What I liked was the complete opposite of Iago. To take over a role that is so heavily associated with a beloved actor must have been daunting. However, Jafar will be included in the bad as well, my beloved Jafar gets well and truly shafted. Thankfully it is and his costume was always beautiful. The same goes with Jafar, he was perfect! Jafar is one of my favourite Disney villains and I would have been devastated if his sarcastic sass was not appreciated. I’m not saying I want a copy and pasted version of the film on stage but Iago was always one of my favourites and I think I would have found it difficult to accept a clearly human Iago who had a totally different personality. He was sarcastic and sassy just like our beloved Iago. My rage disappeared as he sounded very much like the original and was excellent. I was ready to start raging when Iago opened his mouth and started his performance. The next song that was very well done was A Whole New World, the set was fantastic and the illusion of them flying through the stars over the sea was very well done.Īt first I almost shit a brick when I saw Iago as a man after my bitter disappointment of the absent Abu. Williams is simply the perfect Genie and to compete with that when it comes to his most famous song is tough but the stage Genie did it very well. That must have been tough for the actor as Robin Williams’ boots are extraordinarily difficult to fill. The Genie (more on him) proved himself in A Friend Like Me and he made the song his own. It had fantastic dancing, vocals and costumes. The opening song Arabian Nights was fantastic and really geared the audience up for the show. I will be complaining about some of the songs which are pretty much the non-film ones. This really added to the atmosphere of the musical and these were used to fantastic levels in the song Prince Ali where the cast were changing costumes every few minutes to create the illusion of a parade. Let’s start off with the positives:Īs you can see the costumes are bright and vibrant. Anyway, I’m not a stage director but some aspects were lazy but that will be discussed. The play could have been improved via the simple fact that I wish the person next to me would stop staring at me while trumping out the most obnoxious stench every five minutes. So I thought I would go into why I thought it was good and what could be seriously improved. We saw The Lion King so had very high expectations and while the show was good, it was definitely lacking the magic that The Lion King had. We were squeeing in excitement but we prepared to watch the DVD the next day if we needed to cleanse (Spoiler Alert: We needed the cleanse). It was my 27 th birthday last week so me and my Mum went up to London to see Aladdin in the West End.
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