New West End Aladdin Star Matthew Croke on Flying High, His Wicked Past & Bare Chest Buzz
Matthew Croke started the summer by fulfilling any performer’s dreams: graduating from a career spent largely in supporting and understudy assignments to playing a bona fide star part in the West End. London’s new Aladdin in the Disney musical of the same name at the Prince Edward Theatre was giddy with delight when Broadway.com caught him during rehearsals for a chat, not le…