The musical Aladdin features an Alan Menken score with various collaborators: the late Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin. Here, Menken and Beguelin talk about building the new D…
Disney's Aladdin, a new musical comedy based on the Academy Award-winning animated film, opened on Broadway last night, March 20th, 2014, at the New Amsterdam Theatre, after beginning perfor…
Disney Theatrical's bright, lively, tuneful and also very funny stage adaptation of its hugely successful 1992 cartoon film
For director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, Broadway's go-to guy for musical comedy ("The Book of Mormon," "Elf," "The Drowsy Chaperone"), Broadway's "Aladdin" marked the first work with Disn…
For director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, Broadway’s go-to guy for musical comedy ("The Book of Mormon," “Elf,” “The Drowsy Chaperone”), Broadway's "Aladdin" m…
Courtney Reed and Adam Jacobs in Aladdin (©Deen van Meer) When James Monroe Iglehart sings “Friend Like Me” in Disney’s new Broadway musical adaptation of its classi…
The laughs are plentiful, the songs are bright and jazzy and there's not an actor dressed as an animal or inanimate object in sight .
Today we are celebrating the many marvelous musicals that have been produced by Disney on Broadway over the last two decades, with a special focus on the two most popular properties of the m…
Disney's first Genie gives the current Broadway cast a lesson in the art of acceptance speeches.
The Disney stage musical Aladdin, featuring new and existing songs from the 1992 animated film, officially opened on Broadway March 20 at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
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Review of the evening preview performance on Saturday, March 15 at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City. Starring Adam Jacobs, James Monroe Iglehart, Courtney Reed and Jonathan F…
If you're granted three wishes to make during Disney's "Aladdin" you'll definitely want to use one to discover how the musical's creative genies pull off the magic-carpet ride in the second …
This live-action version of the Disney animated classic is the definition of spectacle.
Disney's latest film-to-stage transfer is a whole new world of bright, bold musical comedy.
Disney's 'Aladdin' isn't nearly as good as the movie, but it does have a terrific star, super sets and sensational special effects.
Disney's new "Aladdin" doesn't quite catch lightning in a bottle " but it lets a pretty nifty genie out of a lamp. That would be James Monroe Iglehart, in the...
The Broadway version of "Aladdin" sticks to the movie's formula, but also infuses the conventions of the genre with a breezy insouciance that scrubs away some of the material's bland gloss.&…
Director Casey Nicholaw proves to be at the height of his game with Disney's new musical "Aladdin" at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
Disney's Aladdin, a new musical comedy based on the Academy Award-winning animated film, opens on Broadway tonight, March 20th, 2014, at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Let's see what the critics…
This super-costly extravaganza doesn't do justice to the movie, or to the spirit of the late Howard Ashman.
NEW YORK--"Animated" doesn't begin to describe the frantic, screwball version of Disney's "Aladdin" that opened Thursday night on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, with a bushel of new …